Quality Product Engineer

Renesas is seeking a Quality Product Engineering focused on Quality Assurance to lead quality improvement initiatives specifically geared towards new product development and volume ramp up to deliver on time high quality and ramp ready products that customer timelines and expectations. In this role, you will help drive Renesas product quality to achieve zero-defect mindset. This role will collaborate closely with NPI execution teams, PMO office, Renesas R&D Engineering, Quality teams, enterprise foundation, and factory Operations teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define, track, and drive continuous quality improvement initiatives: Implement strategies to build in and improve NPI product quality, leveraging data-driven insights and cross-functional collaboration to exceed customer expectations. Work with counterparts in the Power STO (Strategy, Technology and Operations) team to implement changes in the development process as needed and to advocate for new tools/capabilities to further improve our delivered quality.
• Analyze and report 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 Quality teams (inc. customer QA): Serve as a liaison to external customer quality assurance teams (CQE, factory quality) to ensure alignment and timely support. Assess organization training needs and leverage the Renesas Quality Team to improve product group skillsets in root cause analysis, developing corrective actions, and preventive measures.
• Implement customer-specific quality requirements: Ensure customer-specific standards are incorporated and rigorously followed during design, development, samples, and production processes, promoting accountability, consistency and reliability. Also ensuring compliance with Renesas business processes and internal external audit readiness
• Lead cross-functional teams (internal to BD and enterprise foundation 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.
• Ensure or define standards compliance for Automotive products: Clearly define customer level requirements if required to the adoption of regulatory, industry, and customer requirements in product definition and performance.
• Serve as representative on external standards committees relevant to PCP products.
  
  

• 10 years of experience in product development or quality engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field. Master`s degree Preferred
• Excellent communication skills, organizational, and people skills, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Solid understanding of new product development process and associated quality standards and business processes, semiconductor supply chain and production environments
• Expertise with statistical analysis, structured problem-solving methodologies – 8D, 3x5 Why, and making data-driven decisions
• Ability to manage supplier excursions and drive resolution of customer escalations
• Knowledge of commercial and automotive quality standards
  
  

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 22,000 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. Shape Your Future with Us.

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