Supplier Quality Engineer - New Grad - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a New College Graduate Supplier Quality Engineer, you will support supplier quality for components, printed circuit board assemblies, subassemblies, and system-level products used in Cerebras systems. You will collaborate with Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Operations, Strategic Sourcing, and suppliers.
What you'll do
- Review First Article Inspection packages against engineering drawings, specifications, dimensional results, and material and process certifications.
- Maintain First Article, supplier-qualification, audit, and quality records in Product Lifecycle Management and quality-management systems.
- Monitor supplier scorecards and quality trends, including defects, parts per million, supplier escapes, audit findings, repeat nonconformances, and corrective-action aging.
- Issue and manage routine Supplier Corrective Action Requests, reviewing supplier containment and 8D responses.
- Support new-supplier assessments and qualification activities, including reviews of technical capability, quality systems, manufacturing controls, and inspection methods.
- Use structured problem-solving methods such as 8D, 5 Whys, and fishbone analysis to investigate supplier and manufacturing-quality issues.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
- Zero to two years of relevant experience, including internships, co-op assignments, research, laboratory work, or hands-on engineering projects.
- Foundational understanding of manufacturing, inspection, quality engineering, statistics, and structured problem-solving.
- Ability to read engineering drawings and specifications, with foundational knowledge of tolerances and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
- Familiarity with First Article Inspection and quality tools such as statistical process control, Cp/Cpk, measurement-system analysis, process failure mode and effects analysis, control plans, 8D, and 5 Whys.
- Exposure to one or more relevant manufacturing processes, such as printed circuit board assembly, cables, machining, sheet metal, plastics, or system assembly.
Nice to have
- Internship, co-op, project, or research experience in supplier quality, manufacturing, hardware development, quality engineering, or operations.
- Familiarity with ISO 9001, AS9100, Advanced Product Quality Planning, Production Part Approval Process, or another relevant quality standard or product-qualification framework.
- Hands-on participation in an engineering organization or project such as Formula SAE, robotics, aerospace, electronics, or a university manufacturing laboratory.
Skills: Supplier Quality Engineer, First Article Inspection, supplier performance, corrective actions, quality systems, manufacturing controls
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2454
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$98k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (2454 roles · 79 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 2454 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 10 | 9855 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 80 d | 55 d (+25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $98k |
Skills observed across this category: Supplier Quality Engineer, First Article Inspection, supplier performance, corrective actions, quality systems, manufacturing controls
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 400 open roles · median 77 d
- Entegris · 236 open roles · median 34 d
- Applied Materials · 232 open roles · median 40 d
- Lam Research · 103 open roles · median 57 d
- Infineon Technologies · 88 open roles · median 55 d
- ASML · 74 open roles · median 69 d
How we counted: 2454 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 79 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.