Senior Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description

Renesas is seeking a Senior Staff Product Assurance Engineer to lead quality improvement initiatives and develop strong relationships with Datacenter Customer Quality teams. In this role, you will help drive Renesas quality to a zero defect mindset. This position reports into the Performance Computing Power (PCP) business unit and will collaborate closely with Renesas Engineering, Customer Quality, Supplier Quality, and Operations teams.

This position will drive implementation of structured problem solving techniques to quickly contain and resolve issues while protecting our customers.

This role offers a unique and exciting opportunity to collaborate with a cross-functional, international team to develop high quality products and procedures to support data center, AI, and computing core power markets. Products supported include digital multiphase controllers, smart power stages, and 48v system power regulators.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define, track, and drive continuous quality improvement initiatives: Implement strategies to improve product quality, leveraging data-driven insights and cross-functional collaboration to exceed customer expectations
• Analyze and report on PCP quality performance (DPPM): Provide actionable insights through regular reporting on customer returns, identifying trends, root causes, and areas for improvement.
• Foster and maintain strong relationships with customer QA teams: Serve as a liaison to external customer quality assurance teams to ensure alignment and timely support.
• Implement customer-specific quality requirements: Ensure customer-specific standards are incorporated into design, development, and production processes, promoting consistency and reliability.
• Lead cross-functional teams (Tiger teams) to resolve critical quality issues: Coordinate and drive rapid, structured problem-solving efforts involving engineering, production, and supply chain teams to quickly resolve quality concerns.
• Provide training on structured problem-solving methodologies: Develop targeted training programs to enhance organizational capability in root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive measures.
• Ensure standards compliance for automotive products: Oversee automotive products adoption of regulatory, industry, and customer requirements
• Facilitate external ISO/IATF audits: Host and coordinate external quality audits, ensure full compliance with ISO/IATF standards, and address any non-conformances in a timely manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field.
• 8 to 10+ years of experience in product or quality engineering teams.
• Semiconductor industry is a must. 
• Excellent communication, organizational, and people skills, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Solid understanding of new product development procedures, semiconductor supply chain and production environments.
• Expertise with statistical analysis, structured problem solving methodologies, and making data-driven decisions.
• Ability to manage supplier excursions and customer escalations.
• Knowledge of commercial and automotive quality standards.

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.