Company:

QUALCOMM SEMICONDUCTORES Y SISTEMAS AVANZADOS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Quality Assurance Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Quality Engineer, you will plan, implement, and manage compliance of design, development/manufacturing, production processes, and/or quality requirements with safety, quality, and regulatory standards for worldwide distribution. Qualcomm Quality Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet and exceed customer expectations.

We are seeking engineers with experience in semiconductor design, development, and internal audit processes. This position will be a hands-on role in managing a global internal assessment program to meet Qualcomm requirements, comply with ISO 9001 standard and independently performing global assessments.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Applied Science, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of Quality Engineering or related work experience. OR
  Master's Degree in Applied Science, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 1+ year of Quality Engineering or related work experience.
  OR
  PhD in Applied Science, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leverage advanced Quality Engineering knowledge and experience to plan and implement internal assessments of compliance to design, development/manufacturing, production processes, and/or quality requirements and ISO standards.
• Independently carry out internal assessments, guiding the hardware design and development and program management teams in the process. Provide feedback, identify process improvements, and follow up with internal teams on comprehensive root cause and action plans to address findings.
• Perform advanced analyses of reports and data to identify highly critical trends and drives updates or control changes to quality standards and procedures.
• Ensure quality integration into the overall functions of design, development, process, and production.
• Establish and maintain healthy relationships with influential/decision makers on ongoing Quality assessments throughout the organization.
• Identify complex trends, defects, or problems in a wide variety of processes, products, and customer feedback/customer returns and leads cross-functional efforts to resolve defects or problems.
• Develop and/or deliver training material, process documents, and templates for ISO certifications and/or external certifications; oversees the development of process documents and templates across different teams.

Level of Responsibility:

• Works independently with minimal supervision.
• Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.
• Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information. May require negotiation, influence, tact, etc.
• Has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions.
• Tasks do not have defined steps; planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of Quality Engineering or related work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in audits/assessments to ISO9001 standard.
• 3+ years of experience with data modeling in statistical software such as MS Excel, Minitab, etc.
• 3+ years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.
• 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director and above).
• Hands-on experience with managing internal assessments for global organizations.
• Has led audits of product development processes and is comfortable with assessments and reporting Quality metrics.
• Structured problem-solving capability and ability to work with teams on root cause analysis.
• Excellent verbal/written communication, interpersonal skills, and presentation skills.
• Achieved certification as Lead or Internal Auditor to ISO 9001: 2015, IATF16949 Lead or Internal Auditor, ISO 26262 Functional Safety, Automotive SPICE.
• Black Belt/Six Sigma certification.
• ASQ (e.g., CQE or CRE) certification or equivalent.

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