Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Semiconductor Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Sourcing & Reliability Engineering

General Summary:

Interfaces with internal engineering teams and external suppliers to provide materials and components for company product manufacturing. Communicates product specifications to suppliers and assesses supplier’s ability to meet engineering and quality requirements. Provides feedback on the functioning of supplier operation. Qualifies suppliers according to company standards to ensure compliance to quality requirements. Monitors devices from procurement through the manufacturing cycle and communicates and resolves supplier-related problems as they occur. Develops and prioritizes an auditing schedule to ensure that designated suppliers are audited on a regular basis to ensure good manufacturing practices and quality standards are met.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Supplier Quality Assurance experience (e.g., quality analysis, audit) or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Supplier Quality Assurance experience (e.g., quality analysis, audit) or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.

The RMA engineer will be responsible for driving the failure isolation and root cause analysis of application software,

integrated circuits and packaging within the assigned products and will be responsible for confirming, isolating and

identifying IC, Process, and Package failures and to determine root cause.

• Establish Analysis plans for each submitted failure that ensure the most time and cost-effective means to preserve

the evidence and get to root cause.

• Develop, characterize, and optimize FA techniques, tools and protocols.

• Continuously improve processes and methods to track and report Failure analysis status, records, and trends.

• Perform failure analysis including the electrical and mechanical characteristics of integrated circuits, components,

packages, and field environments to determine the root cause of failure.

Directing, performing and/or coordinating with external labs to perform fault isolation to identify failure

mechanisms(s)

Perform electrical bench testing and interpret ATE data-logs to aid in localizing electrical failures.

Work with designers and engineering groups to isolate root cause of failures.

• Generate detailed failure analysis reports for both internal and external customers.

• Maintain understanding of technical roadmaps and latest technology trends in integrated circuits and packaging.

• Interface as necessary with CQE, SQE, PTE, PQE, REE, and with Marketing & Sales, Operations, System

Engineering and Design for various product quality and reliability related issues

• When called upon to do so to provide technical customer support regarding failure analysis reports and

miscellaneous correspondence as required by the customers. Must be able to handle multiple customer

returns/issues simultaneously.

• Manage Failure Analysis Response times to meet customer expectations.

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