Director, Quality, Reliability & I/O

Job Title

Director, Quality, Reliability & I/O

Role Summary

Lead teams and manage foundry partnerships responsible for quality, reliability, and advanced interconnect technologies across PsiQuantum’s photonic and electronic platforms. Scope includes wafer-level bumping, Optical I/O, electrical I/O, back-end interconnect, and the interface with EIC foundries.

The role sets technical direction, establishes qualification strategies, resolves yield and reliability issues, and matures technologies from development into product and system builds while coordinating design, process integration, test, and external manufacturing partners.

Experience Level

Senior - minimum ~10 years of relevant experience in semiconductor, photonics, electronics, packaging, quality, or reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

The director will lead technical teams and programs to assure product performance, manufacturability, and schedule requirements.

• Set priorities, operating plans, and technical direction for Quality and Reliability functions.
• Build and manage teams for wafer-level bumping, Optical I/O, electrical I/O, and back-end interconnect technologies.
• Coordinate and lead the EIC foundry interface: qualification, design requirements, and issue resolution.
• Direct qualification and reliability programs, including test-vehicle strategy and qualification readiness.
• Drive cross-functional investigations into yield, quality, reliability, and manufacturing issues; implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Align design, process, packaging, and test requirements; enforce design-for-reliability and manufacturability.
• Develop and manage supplier and foundry relationships; track partner performance against objectives.
• Use process, inspection, metrology, test, and reliability data to identify risks and improve process capability.
• Report program status, technical risks, and resource needs to executive leadership and partners.

Requirements

Must-have technical experience, leadership skills, and practical knowledge to run qualification and reliability programs.

• 10+ years in semiconductor, photonics, electronics, packaging, quality, or reliability engineering.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and delivering complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience with semiconductor quality and reliability methods, qualification planning, failure analysis, and corrective action.
• Hands-on experience with wafer-level bumping and advanced packaging or back-end interconnect technologies.
• Experience with Optical I/O and/or high-speed electrical I/O and integration with photonic or electronic products.
• Experience interfacing with EIC foundries or other semiconductor manufacturing partners on process integration and production issues.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, process integration, and product qualification.
• Ability to use yield, process-control, metrology, test, and reliability data to drive technical decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; ability to present technical risks to senior leadership.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-moving environment.

Education Requirements

Graduate study (e.g., MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or a closely related field.

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About the Company

Company: PsiQuantum

Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA, United States

PsiQuantum develops silicon-photonic quantum computers aimed at building million-qubit, fault-tolerant systems. Founded in 2016, the company combines semiconductor manufacturing processes, photonic hardware, and quantum software to scale quantum systems for commercial and government applications.