Etched · 7 hours ago
Senior Quality Engineer
San Jose
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expEtched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures. They are seeking a highly motivated Senior Quality Engineer to bridge the gap between hardware design, software development, production, and customer engagement, ensuring quality and infrastructure readiness for their solutions.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)ComputerHardwareSemiconductor
Responsibilities
Design and Deploy a QMS: Work across the organization to define quality policies and determine customer quality expectations for initial and future product deployments, define appropriate quality goals and metrics, and design and implement policies and procedures across the enterprise to ensure the capability to meet those goals
Enterprise Tools and Business Process Development/Improvement: Create and document quality management processes and tool specifications, linking the business processes supported by R&D tools, document management, ERP, defect tracking, and other systems to improve cross-functional DFx, and drive quality goals aligned with product requirements. Coordinate with R&D, manufacturing, and customer engagements
Direct Customer Quality Support: Work with management to develop customer support flows for quality and reliability issues and escalations including customer RMA to failure analysis, root cause, and corrective and preventive actions and customer reports of the same. As shipments ramp, help build a team and develop the internal analytical tools and capabilities to carry out this work
Leadership and Development: Partner in building and training a capable quality engineering team, and provide cross-functional training and leadership, to support ramping of volumes and customer qualification and quality response interactions. Mentor, guide, and develop engineers to ensure our overall capability and quality meet our customer’s expectations
ODM/CM Collaboration: Partner with production engineers and the reliability engineering team to help architect and design end-to-end quality monitors and reliability test plans, and ensure consistent and efficient flows of data and processes for assessment/response to the results
Continuous Improvement: Analyze design flows, ERP implementation, test, and quality data to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies and implement improvements to boost overall company performance
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
10+ years of experience in quality or reliability engineering, manufacturing process design and engineering, production engineering, or a related role in the technology or electronics industry
Strong understanding of system-level and functional testing methodologies
Quality management, lean manufacturing, statistical process control, and/or six sigma experience
Experience working with custom semiconductor and complex PCBA technologies, particularly PCBA assembly and SMT processes, as well as data center infrastructure
Experience with manufacture, assembly and integration of complex systems with high-speed interconnect
Proficiency in data analysis tools and methods for optimizing production time, yield, and throughput
Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on process optimization and continuous improvement
Strong communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
Hands-on experience with server-level and rack level assembly, integration, and diagnostics
Familiarity with automation tools and techniques for production lines
Preferred
ASQ Certification or similar for quality management and LSS (Lean Six Sigma) is a plus
Benefits
Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage
Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office
Daily lunch and dinner in our office
Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Company
Etched
Building the hardware for superintelligence
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$625.36MKey Investors
StripesPrimary Venture Partners
2026-01-14Series Unknown· $500M
2024-06-25Series A· $120M
2023-05-16Seed· $5.36M
Leadership Team
Chris Zhu
Co-Founder
Robert Wachen
Co-Founder and President
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