VP of Global Product & Quality Excellence - San Jose, California, United States
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on quality excellence in analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductors.
About the role
This role will redefine quality as a strategic competitive advantage, transforming it into an enterprise capability across the entire product lifecycle from architecture through field performance. This role involves driving excellence across external wafer fabrication, assembly, and test partners within a fabless semiconductor model.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end product quality, reliability engineering, supplier quality, customer quality, and quality systems.
- Partner with Engineering to strengthen Design for Quality, verification, failure analysis, and reliability methodologies.
- Lead quality across outsourced manufacturing partners, ensuring robust process controls, change management, and continuous improvement.
- Establish executive quality governance, enterprise KPIs, and Board-level reporting.
- Assess product quality, reliability, supplier performance, customer escalations, organizational capability, and quality systems.
- Launch Design for Quality, supplier excellence, and customer quality initiatives, implementing enterprise dashboards, governance, and standardized quality reviews.
What you'll need
- 20+ years of semiconductor industry leadership with significant experience in analog, mixed-signal or power semiconductors.
- Executive leadership in product quality, reliability engineering, supplier quality, and customer quality.
- Experience operating within a fabless semiconductor model using external manufacturing partners.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise transformation and influencing executive leadership and Boards.
- Technical depth combined with strategic business acumen and exceptional leadership.
Skills: product quality, reliability engineering, supplier quality, customer quality, quality systems, fabless semiconductor
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 57-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
432
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$158k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Power Integrations | All employers we track in this specialty (432 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 432 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 9 | 9662 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 19 d | 57 d (−38 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $158k |
Skills observed across this category: product quality, reliability engineering, supplier quality, customer quality, quality systems, fabless semiconductor
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 74 open roles · median 147 d
- Infineon Technologies · 31 open roles · median 43 d
- Analog Devices · 21 open roles · median 50 d
- onsemi · 20 open roles · median 65 d
- Applied Materials · 18 open roles · median 67 d
- Intel Corporation · 17 open roles · median 34 d
How we counted: 432 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 7 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.