Quality Engineering Director

Job Description

Renesas Electronics America, Inc. is looking for a Senior Customer Quality Engineering Director to lead strategic quality team supporting key customers. This role serves as the primary quality interface between our organization and global key accounts, ensuring flawless execution, rapid issue resolution, and continuous quality improvement across advanced semiconductor technologies.

The Senior Customer Quality Manager will manage and develop a team of Customer Quality Engineers (CQEs) while operating at both technical and executive levels, driving customer confidence, protecting revenue, and strengthening long-term relationships.

Responsibilities:

Customer Quality Leadership

• Act as the senior quality focal point for top-tier global customers, managing all quality-related engagements and escalations
• Own customer quality performance metrics (PPM, RMA, SCARs, audits, and scorecards) and ensure commitments are consistently met or exceeded
• Lead executive-level customer reviews, quality summits, and strategic business reviews

Team Leadership & Development

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of Worldwide Customer Quality Engineers, setting clear objectives and performance expectations
• Allocate resources and prioritize workload across customers, products, and escalations
• Establish best practices for customer engagement, issue resolution, and communication consistency across the CQE team
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex or high-impact customer quality issues

Issue Resolution & Risk Management

• Drive end-to-end resolution of complex customer quality issues, from containment through root cause and permanent corrective action
• Lead cross-functional teams (fab, assembly/test, R&D, product engineering, supply chain, etc.) using structured problem-solving methodologies

Strategic Improvement & Influence

• Partner with internal leadership to influence design-for-quality, process robustness, and reliability strategies
• Use customer feedback and field data to drive continuous improvement and reduce cost of poor quality

Qualifications

• Education: BSEE or MSEE
• Experience: 8+ years of experience in Customer Quality or Product Engineer supporting customers and/or the business unit.
• Experience managing quality for Top Tier Customers
• Expertise in structured problem-solving and root cause analysis
• Strong knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing processes (wafer fab, assembly, test, and reliability)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at technical, operational, and executive levels
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams
• Available to support domestic & international business travel

Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $165-$210K. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

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.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.