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 role 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. It is a hands-on technical, non-reporting role.

Key responsibilities

• Support worldwide operations quality across customer experience, assembly, integration, test, inspection, qualification and field startup.
• Improve quality outcomes in internal factory processes, customer escalations and field learning feedback loops.
• Act as a technical quality partner for Manufacturing, Product Engineering, Design Engineering, Supply Chain, Global Product Support and Customer teams.
• Use quality systems and data analytics to reduce defect escapes, rework, scrap and qualification cycle time.
• Lead root cause investigations using 8D, CAPA, DMAIC, Fishbone, 5-Why and Pareto analysis, and validate corrective actions through control plans and metrics.
• Support customer quality issues, escalations and containment, and feed 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, qualification and release processes