Develops, applies, and maintains quality and reliability standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished product. Evaluate the materials, process and techniques used in production to meet the requirement of products and production equipment. Specifies inspection and testing mechanism, conduct quality assessment (up to and including audits) and perform statistical analysis to determine the responsibility for products and systems that do not meet required specifications. Delivers standardization in product qualification, manufacturing quality systems and methods. Provide feedback to BU, TD and/or partner engineering group on design or method and statistical process control procedures including manufacturing systems in HVM. Determines reliability requirements and automated screening methodologies of components and systems to achieve company, customer and any governmental agency reliability objectives. Develops new acceleration techniques, analytical tools and quality screens to assure the early identification of potential problems with new products, packaging, processes, and product quality/reliability. Responds to customer requests or events as they occur. Makes recommendations for changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process/product reliability.

Qualifications

Technical Qualifications
- Candidate should possess an MS degree with at least 5 years additional relevant experience, or a PhD degree with 2 years in material science, chemical, physics, Electrical Engineering or Physics, with an emphasis in Physics of Semiconductor Materials or Devices.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and a track record of problem solving with creativity and out-of-box thinking
- Knowledge of wafer fabrication, param, probe, reliability and/or assembly packaging processing is required.
- Experience in empirical data collection and statistical data analysis, reliability statistics, and design of experiments.
- Strong expertise of device characterization, qualification and troubleshooting;
- (Bonus) Direct experience in NAND device development and characterization,
- Prefer candidates with hands on experience in reliability, yield analysis or integration area.

Non-Volatile Solutions Memory Group:  The Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group is a worldwide organization that delivers NAND flash memory products for use in Solid State Drives (SSDs), portable memory storage devices, digital camera memory cards, and other devices.  The group is responsible for NVM technology design and development, complete Solid State Drive (SSD) system hardware and firmware development, as well as wafer and SSD manufacturing.