Senior Supplier Quality Engineer – Semiconductor Hardware

This is a Hybrid onsite (3 days/week in office, regular shift), contract role in Tualatin, OR.

We are hiring a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer to support a leading semiconductor equipment organization. This role is ideal for a highly experienced quality and supplier engineering professional who has worked with complex OEM components, commercial off-the-shelf parts, pneumatics, vacuum systems, and cable or wiring harness assemblies in a high-tech manufacturing environment.

In this position, you will work closely with suppliers, product teams, new product introduction teams, and internal stakeholders to drive supplier quality, resolve critical technical issues, and improve product and process performance across the full product lifecycle. The role offers broad visibility across advanced hardware systems and the opportunity to influence both new designs and existing production environments.

What you will do

• Own supplier quality engineering activities for assigned OEM and component suppliers
• Drive quality improvements across manufacturing, testing, qualification, and change processes
• Partner with internal teams and suppliers on new product introduction and sustaining engineering efforts
• Lead supplier audits, investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action initiatives
• Act as the technical liaison across suppliers, product groups, development teams, and customer-facing teams
• Support components and systems such as vacuum systems, actuators, bellows, flowmeters, fan filters, manometers, pumps, pneumatics, cable assemblies, and wiring harnesses

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of experience, Master’s degree with 8 years, or PhD with 5 years in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• Strong experience in supplier quality engineering within semiconductor equipment, advanced manufacturing, or similar hardware-intensive industries
• Experience solving technical and quality issues across the product lifecycle, including new product introduction
• Strong background in supplier audits, RCCA, quality systems, process improvement, and manufacturing problem-solving
• Experience working with OEM suppliers, COTS components, cable assemblies, and pneumatic or vacuum-related systems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across cross-functional technical and business teams

Preferred qualifications

• Prior product design or technical engineering experience in vacuum systems
• Experience in quality and reliability systems in semiconductor, aerospace, automotive, or related equipment industries
• Strong knowledge of 8D, 5 Whys, FMEA, failure analysis, design for reliability, DFM, and DFA
• Experience with Six Sigma, DMAIC, SPC, Minitab, or JMP
• Proven ability to handle critical quality escalations and drive resolution across global stakeholders

Why apply

• This is a high-impact opportunity to work on advanced semiconductor hardware and collaborate across a wide supplier network and multiple product groups. You will play a key role in improving supplier performance, supporting next-generation designs, and helping bring high-quality products into manufacturing.

Our Client is a Fortune 350 company that engages in the design, manufacturing, marketing, and service of semiconductor processing equipment.