Senior Quality Engineer

Job Title

Senior Quality Engineer

Degree:

Bachelor, Master, PhD

Work Experience:

10-15 years, 16+ years, 4-9 years

Travel:

10%

Workplace Types:

Hybrid

Job Description:

Introduction to the job

ASML US brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

As a Quality Engineer, you take responsibility for providing insight into the quality of the department’s development processes and deliverables. This includes driving quality improvements in reporting, way of working, tools, root cause analysis, and training. You also have the opportunity to help shape a new quality role within a design and development organization.

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Role and responsibilities

• Provide regular reporting on development process adherence to managers and project leaders. Develop the reporting if it is unavailable.
• Bring the voice of the customer into the department by providing feedback from customers, factory and integration to the department. Improve the feedback loop.
• Design Assurance: Provide feedback to line and project management of  PGP, Key Decision, and design review adherence to improve quality of product development.
• For development process quality issues, perform root cause analysis and identify corrective actions.
• Drive for continuous improvement. Facilitate engineers to find root causes of technical issues and translate them into lessons learned. Enable competence leads/owners to translate lessons learned into guidelines, design rules, or process improvements.
• Supporting and coaching projects and their engineers on the quality aspects of their deliverables.
• Link to the overall ASML and D&E Quality Management System.
• Effectively employ problem solving tools/methodology.
• Provide feedback on company standard risk management tools (i.e., SRAs, FMEA's, pFMEA’s) utilized for development projects.
• Assure proper supplier selection based on provided performance of new and existing suppliers to support design and development, and to drive supplier improvement efforts.
• Provide on a regular basis insight on performance in terms of parts usage, product performance, quality sensitive elements in design process adherence.
• Collaborate with quality organization in operations and field service areas.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Applied Physics, Electrical, Mechanical, Optical, or Mechatronic Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum four years related work experience.
• Six Sigma Black Belt.
• Experience in complex multidisciplinary technical team(s).
• Demonstrated skills in quality engineering.
• Affinity with managing specifications and test results.
• Theoretical or practical experience with mechatronic systems, optical systems, control engineering, actuator design, dynamics.
• Demonstrated ability to perform statistical analysis.

Skills

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.

To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.  
• Can learn and apply new information or skills. 
• Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.
• Strong customer focus a