Staff / Principal Quality Engineer, Manufacturing Operations

About the role

Applied Materials, a global leader in materials science and engineering solutions for semiconductors and advanced displays, is hiring a Staff / Principal Quality Engineer for its Manufacturing Operations team in Singapore. The engineer drives product, process, supplier and operational quality across the manufacturing lifecycle, developing quality systems, supporting factory operations and partnering with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Global Quality and Customer teams to prevent defects and improve cycle time. It is a hands-on technical role, not a reporting role.

Key responsibilities

• Support worldwide operations quality across customer experience, assembly, integration, test, inspection, qualification and field startup.
• Design inspection, testing and quality control methods for manufacturing and production equipment, and support product qualification, reliability testing, process validation and first article inspection.
• Lead root cause investigations using 8D, CAPA, DMAIC, Fishbone, 5-Why and Pareto analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Support customer quality escalations, containment activities and customer-ready presentations, feeding customer learnings back into manufacturing controls.
• Analyse operational data, build dashboards and KPIs, and lead Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and continuous improvement projects.
• Influence cross-functional teams, share best practices globally and mentor junior engineers, inspectors and technicians.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering, Physical Sciences or a related technical discipline; equivalent technical experience may be considered.
• Experience in quality, manufacturing, product, supplier, customer, process, test or reliability engineering in semiconductor capital equipment or a comparable complex manufacturing environment.
• Preferred: customer quality, factory quality, supplier recovery, installation quality, startup issues, audit readiness, analytics dashboards, Lean Six Sigma and structured corrective action systems.

Required skills

• Quality engineering: 8D, CAPA, RCA, SPC, MSA, FMEA, Control Plans, FAI, ISO 9001, process validation, reliability testing
• Data tools: Excel, Power BI, Tableau, JMP, statistical analysis and data visualization
• Semiconductor capital equipment, assembly and integration, inspection and metrology, GD&T and engineering drawings