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Chemical Delivery/Flow Control Device Quality Engineer E4

Applied Materials · Santa Clara, CA

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Level
Engineer
Team
Quality
Base pay
$134k–$184k
Travel
25%
Experience asked
10+ years
Industry
Industrial
Posted
13 days ago

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An engineer-level quality role at Applied Materials (industrial) in Santa Clara, CA.

They ask for
10+ years
Tools it names
Root cause, FMEA, Control plans, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Supplier quality
Base pay
$134k–$184k
Day to day
about 25% travel

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Position summary

The Chemical Delivery COE Quality Representative is a Quality and Reliability role embedded in the Chemical Delivery Center of Excellence. The role provides independent quality oversight for chemical and gas delivery hardware, including mass flow controllers (MFCs), flow ratio controllers (FRCs), liquid flow controllers, vaporizers, ultra-high-purity valves and regulators, pressure-control devices, gas panels, and precursor delivery subsystems. The position addresses the technical quality challenges unique to chemical delivery, including flow accuracy and stability, leak integrity, contamination and particle control, material compatibility, cleanliness, pressure performance, software or control-algorithm behavior, long-term reliability, supplier process changes, and configuration control. The role remains within and reports through the Quality and Reliability organization while partnering with the Chemical Delivery COE. The Design Engineering Authority (DEA) retains design authority, specification ownership, supplier lock, and final technical qualification acceptance. Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) retains supplier audit and supplier corrective-action ownership.

Key responsibilities

Technical Quality Support for Chemical Delivery Hardware Development

  • ◆Partner with the DEA and Reliability throughout development of chemical and gas delivery hardware to identify technical quality risks from concept through release.
  • ◆Translate DEA and Reliability

requirements

into measurable acceptance criteria and qualification or validation plans. Ensure plans address flow accuracy and stability, leak integrity, pressure performance, cleanliness, particles, material compatibility, control behavior, and life

requirements

as applicable.

  • ✓Participate in design reviews and DFMEA/PMECA activities to ensure high-risk failure modes have defined prevention controls, detection controls, owners, and closure evidence.
  • ✓Independently review specification completeness, manufacturability, testability, measurement capability, traceability, cleanliness, packaging, material compatibility, and contamination risk. Escalate technical gaps to the DEA.
  • ✓Develop or review FAI, PQP, inspection, test, and qualification protocols needed to verify the defined technical requirements. Quality coordinates evidence completeness; the designated test organization executes testing; the DEA provides final technical acceptance.
  • ✓Partner with Reliability Engineering on reliability targets, mission profiles, sample-size rationale, accelerated-life testing, stress testing, failure-analysis triggers, and reliability evidence.

requirements

for MFCs, FRCs, regulators, valves, transducers, vaporizers, manifolds, and related subsystems. SQE remains accountable for supplier audits and supplier corrective actions.

  • ✓Ensure critical characteristics, acceptance criteria, measurement methods, sampling rationale, traceability, cleanliness controls, change-notification requirements, and reaction plans are documented and flowed to the supplier.
  • ✓Provide commodity-specific technical input to supplier audits and corrective actions. SQE leads the audit and supplier corrective-action process; the Quality Representative verifies that techn
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Who We Are

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the world’s technology.

What We Offer

Salary

$133,500.00 - $183,500.00

Location

Santa Clara,CA

You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.

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Technical Issue Resolution and Accountability

  • •Ensure development, manufacturing, qualification, supplier, and field issues are routed to the correct Issue Owning Function (IOF). Lead structured problem solving when Quality is the accountable function; provide quality-method support when Design, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing, Reliability, or Product Support owns the root cause.
  • •Ensure risk-based containment and objective corrective-action evidence are in place for flow drift, leakage, clogging, contamination, particle excursions, pressure instability, software or algorithm issues, documentation defects, and component failures.
  • •Define the failure-analysis question, evidence required, sample handling, chain of custody, and decision timing with Engineering, Reliability, SQE, Product Support, internal laboratories, and suppliers.
  • •Maintain a Chemical Delivery quality action register that identifies the issue, technical risk, containment, IOF, accountable owner, due date, root-cause status, corrective action, and effectiveness evidence.
  • •Independently verify corrective-action effectiveness using objective data and an appropriate monitoring period. Ensure validated lessons are incorporated into specifications, qualification plans, control plans, supplier requirements, or service procedures by the accountable owner.

Supplier and Component Technical Quality

  • •Partner with SQE, DEA, BU Quality, and Supplier Engineering on technical quality

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