Quality Engineer – Outgoing Quality Assurance (OQA) (m/f/d)

European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH is the joint venture between TSMC, Bosch, Infineon and NXP. For the first time, global technology leader TSMC is building a semiconductor fab in the heart of Europe, offering cutting-edge manufacturing technologies for next-generation semiconductor products. ESMC represents a shared commitment to strengthening the European semiconductor ecosystem. For our future fab in Dresden, we are looking for a highly motivated and committed: Quality Engineer – Outgoing Quality Assurance (OQA) (m/f/d)

Are you ready to be the ultimate gatekeeper of quality for Europe’s newest, most advanced semiconductor facility? As a Quality Engineer (m/f/d) in Outgoing Quality Assurance (OQA) at ESMC, you will be responsible for ensuring our products meet the highest standards before they reach our customers. *Starting from January 2027* and based in Dresden, you will lead the establishment of our local OQA site operations, develop automation workflows, and manage advanced inline inspection tools and testing recipes. By combining hands-on technical defect analysis with big data analytics, you will collaborate closely with the fab manufacturing teams to minimize defect rates and mitigate quality risks in a dynamic greenfield environment! Job Responsibilities 1. Establish OQA Operations: Play a key role in setting up the local outgoing quality department, establishing workflows, and deploying automated quality systems from the ground up. 2. Tool & Recipe Ownership: Oversee the release, maintenance, calibration, and recipe development for inline inspection tools to ensure precise measurement capabilities. 3. Quality Change Control: Manage and sign off on process change control procedures to ensure engineering modifications do not impact outgoing product quality. 4. Defect & Root-Cause Analysis: Investigate product defects, perform failure analysis, and trace root causes to prevent recurrence. 5. Risk Assessment: Conduct structural quality risk assessments and implement robust containment actions in cooperation with fab modules. 6. Continuous Improvement & Big Data: Lead OQA yield and quality improvement projects utilizing advanced big data analytics and statistical methods. Job Qualifications Must-Have:

1. Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Materials Engineering, Physics, Quality/Reliability, or a related science/engineering field. 2. Experience: 0 to 3 years of hands-on professional experience within semiconductor manufacturing, quality and reliability engineering, process integration, yield, or packaging/bumping/assembly. 3. Technical Knowledge: Initial experience with defect density inspection tools, recipe creation, failure analysis methods, or statistical process control (SPC). 4. Languages: Fluent in written and spoken English. 5. Personal Attributes: Highly motivated with strong ownership, resilience under pressure, and a proactive, collaborative approach to solving complex problems.

Nice-to-Have:

1. Familiarity with big data analysis software, scripting languages, or statistical tools (e.g., JMP, SQL, or Python). 2. Basic conversational communication skills in German and/or Mandarin.

Why Join ESMC?

1. Help build a completely new semiconductor manufacturing site in Europe. 2. Work in a highly international environment with colleagues across Europe, Taiwan and the US. 3. Shape processes instead of maintaining existing structures. 4. Participate in global projects and cross-functional collaboration. 5. International onboarding including approximately 9-12 months of training in Taiwan. Each journey starts with a first step. Joining ESMC at this early stage will provide you with the unique opportunity to actively shape the future of the fab in Dresden, boost your career and put your true potential to the test. You will be working in a fast paced, international startup environment whilst at the same time having access to the experience, talent, and resources of the largest and most advanced semiconductor manufacturer in the world, TSMC. You have ample opportunities to learn about TSMC Operations, Digital Transformation, and various advanced Facilities related topics, both in Taiwan and other sites around the world. Behind the world’s most advanced technology are real people with real passion. Our success is fueled by our core values: Integrity, Commitment, Innovation and Customer Trust (ICIC). At ESMC we believe in the power of inclusive leadership and passion. We demonstrate this in our commitment to our people vision: create an inclusive environment to inspire passion and enable the best in YOU. It is the policy of ESMC to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, ethnic and national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.