Supplier QA Engineer, Staff

The Group You’ll Be A Part Of

This position will be in the Supplier Engineering and Technology group (SET), within Lam India Global supply chain operations group, working as a Supplier QA Engineer, Staff with a variety of suppliers in the vacuum technology space, in partnership with many Product Groups within the company.  This offers a unique opportunity to have visibility across the whole spectrum of what Lam makes, develop relationships across the company and with a variety of suppliers, work both with C&F teams for New Product introduction as well as maintaining our existing tools and designs

The Impact You’ll Make

As a Supplier Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer at Lam, you'll make an impact in ensuring suppliers manufacturing processes and products meet quality standards by designing, implementing, and maintaining quality assurance programs. You design methods for inspecting, testing, and evaluating production processes and finished products onsite at our global suppliers’ locations. By analyzing production data, you identify trends and partner with the supplier to resolve technical, quality and production challenges. Your expertise will help develop excellence in supplier product inputs supporting Lam's commitment to delivering high-quality and reliable products.

In this role, you will directly contribute to develop (in partnership with Lam's C&F teams and suppliers) new designs in vacuum systems, from advanced valve designs, including novel heated products to manage hard-to-solve particles and sealing problems, actuators and bellows, metrology such as precision manometers, pumping, etc. Our Complex OEM team works in a wide variety of high technology fields, and this position offers an opportunity to collaborate across our group and the company on many interesting fields.

What You’ll Do

• Apply skills and experience with semiconductor manufacturing and equipment, focused on vacuum technology, to technical and quality problems encountered in the product life cycle with special attention to new product introduction 
• Accountable for the quality and timeliness of supplier engineering tasks and projects and be a point of contact for the assigned OEM suppliers.
• Travel to Lam’s suppliers manufacturing locations to conduct effective situation assessments, audits and investigations and apply findings to implement systematic and lasting improvements to product and process 
• Perform Program/Project and Supplier Management roles with emphasis on problem-solving analysis and improvements in manufacturing and test processes. Definition, review and improvement of Supplier’s Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA), Supplier’s Quality Systems and Processes of Record (POR) 
• Act as a technical liaison between OEM Suppliers, Product group, Product development and customer front-end teams to ensure speed and fast issue resolution and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Apply experience with industrial Quality Systems, Engineering Design & Documentation, Product Qualification, Change (EC) Processes and Problem Solving to issues occurring in product and component life cycles.

Who We’re Looking For

• Exceptional analytical and experimental design skills. Creative thinking, structured problem solving, and troubleshooting capabilities
• Proven ability to handle critical and safety-related quality escalations with cross-functional teams includes Product group (PG), NPI (New Product Introduction), Field Service Engineers (FSE), Accounts Team (AT), Global Product Services (GPS), Global Quality and customers.
• Ability and expertise in Failure Analysis (FA) /8D process, 5-whys, FMEA, Design-for-Reliability, Weibull analyses, etc., to solve our most complex problems in the most efficient way
• Ability to understand modeling from suppliers, notably thermal & flow modeling
• Provide Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) feedback to optimize supplier manufacturing processes and reduce Quality, Cost and delivery issues.
• Strong business effective communication and presentation skill to various levels of the company, and to suppliers during onsite/virtual audits, Interactions and discussions.

Minimum Qualification

Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience or Master’s with 8+ years of experience or PhD with 5+ years’ experience in Mechanical, Aerospace, Automobile, Metallurgical, Production, System Engineering, or related fields.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior product design and technical engineer experience in vacuum systems is beneficial.
• Experience in quality and reliability systems in semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, or related hardware, tools, and equipment is a plus.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and project management.
• Knowledge in six sigma (DMAIC approach), SPC tools and usage of Minitab, JMP

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.