Supplier Quality Engineer, Antenna

Meta quality team is looking for a supplier quality engineer to be responsible for overall Antenna Quality and manufacturing process development within the supply chain. This role is ideal for a motivated applicant that is self-driven, enjoys working in a fast-paced development environment, and has a strong quality or manufacturing engineering background.

Supplier Quality Engineer, Antenna Responsibilities:

• Identify equipment, fixture, and tooling needs and drive implementation efforts to qualify and optimize the manufacturing process.
• Establish quality and process control plans at vendors for early detection of issues and to ensure the highest level of quality and reliability is consistently delivered.
• Responsible for conducting Design/Process FMEA, Failure analysis, PPAP, and Statistical Process Control.
• Knowledgeable in conducting DOEs, Line qualification, Machine Buy-off, Cycle Time & UPH studies, and Automation.
• The SQE will work closely with the engineering team to understand product design intent and then be a major part of supplier identification and selection.
• Develop and institutionalize our vendor and supplier selection process.
• Evaluate prospective vendors for process capability based on project needs.
• Publish concise reports on module yield performance, specification convergence status
• Drive Failure analysis, Corrective Action implementation plan, and yield bridge to mass production.
• Responsible for supplier quality management with a focus on assessing supplier production and quality controls, evaluating supplier readiness, and adherence to module quality plan.
• Partner with Engineering to define product acceptance plans based on PRD.
• Collaborate with Suppliers and Engineering teams in assessing, proposing, and developing process technologies based on project requirements.

• BS degree in RF, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering is required.
• 8+ years of experience in supplier quality engineering in consumer electronics with relevant work experience
• Strong knowledge of different kind of antenna manufacturing processes with an understanding of equipment, Carrier Materials, and methodologies commonly used in the industry.
• Experience with LDS plating process, chemical solution and plating quality control.
• Experience with injection molding tooling buy-off and molding part quality issue fixing.
• Understand the FPC/PCB stack up and familiar with FPC/PCB process for antenna pattern manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience on Antenna test fixture design, qualification and test curve correlation.
• Understand how to define the reliability test plan to do quality risk assessment for different kind of antenna category.
• Hands-on experience on Wifi/Bluetooth test at system level and have the capability to identify the root cause to fix the failure.
• Experience with quality tools such as SPC, FMEA, GR&R, DoE, metrology, GD&T, and Correlation studies.
• Experience with doing data analysis using Excel, Minitab, or JMP.
• Good at identifying risk and developing solid plans to mitigate
• Good communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 60% to global locations.

• Masters degree in RF, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering with 10+ years of experience.
• RF design and test experience is preferred.
• Project management experience and proven track record of creative problem-solving in an unambiguous environment.
• Have Ownership/Leadership mindset with an ability to be in a leadership position and achieve results with minimal supervision