Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Click here to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Principal Quality Engineer- RF & Microwave

Job Purpose:

The Principal Quality Engineer will be responsible for support of multiple business units across various key commercial and Aerospace and Defense programs. Product Scope includes component but principally higher-level modules and pallet programs. Additional support of the site quality system and continuous improvement initiatives will also be required.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for implementation and execution of the quality management system (QMS) with existing or new programs assigned.
• Main representative from the quality organization interacting with customer counterparts on programs assigned.
• Partner with Program Management and Integrated Product Team (IPT) to provide proactive issue identification, causal analysis, mitigation, and preventive action.
• Represent the Quality functional organization at program reviews, program staff meetings, etc.
• Establish and maintain Quality metrics that are utilized by the program team to monitor performance.
• Manage and report on Root Cause and Corrective Action effectively for all areas of Program / Product execution.
• Perform trend analysis and oversee corrective measures for Quality related metrics; surveil program metric trends.
• Communicate and escalate quality, customer satisfaction and program performance issues to the program team, functional / program managers and business leaders as necessary for timely resolution.
• Responsible for helping to improve customer satisfaction scores for the Quality scope.
• Assist in the planning of internal and subcontractor audits.
• Lead BU reviews from a Quality perspective for existing and new programs during customer source control documents review, during the new product stage gate process, and product support post release.
• Proficient in control plans, FMEAs, PPAP, MSA, 6sigma, 5s and other lean methodologies etc. with the ability to guide institutional learning on these methods.

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S./M.S. in Electrical Engineering or related technical field (or equivalent) with 5-10+ years of component and/or module/pallet assembly processes with direct experience in managing complex programs and customers from a Quality and/or manufacturing view.
• Understanding of semiconductor device fabrication and components theory.
• Understanding of Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing: IPC-600, IPC-610, J-STD-001
• Understanding of Micro-Electronics Assembly: MIL-STD-833
• Experience managing programs in compliance with AS9100D standards.
• Working knowledge of statistical sampling plans used for inspection or test of components along with the ability to perform statistical data analysis on large data sets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Well-practiced organization and planning skills.
• Ability to work both independently and within a team environment.
• MS Office experience (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Project).
• Statistical software experience (JMP, Minitab, etc.)
• Experience with Agile and/or SAP a plus.
• Due to ITAR regulations, candidates must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Position resides in Lowell MA but frequent travel to the MACOM Nashua NH site will be required. Travel to Morgan Hill, CA also may be required (but less frequent).
• Some business travel to end customers may be required.

EEO:

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military obligations, or membership in any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call +1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.