Quality and Reliability Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: Chandler, Arizona, United States; hybrid with 3 days per week onsite. Headquarters are in Vancouver, Washington.

Company

hirify.global is a well-funded semiconductor startup developing chiplet solutions for high-performance chips used in AI and advanced computing.

What you will do

• Own company-wide quality, reliability, and design-for-reliability initiatives from development through high-volume manufacturing.
• Define process quality and reliability requirements with wafer foundries, OSAT partners, and internal design teams.
• Manage supplier qualifications, test vehicles, manufacturing quality improvements, and pre-tape-out risk mitigation.
• Lead product bring-ups, qualification activities, excursion-material disposition, and product return evaluations.
• Plan and execute stress testing with partners to build predictive models for intrinsic and extrinsic failure mechanisms.
• Establish quality guidelines, qualification standards, and reliability frameworks for next-generation product architectures.

Requirements

• PhD or MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in semiconductor process, quality management, and product reliability.
• Deep knowledge of semiconductor physics, acceleration models, and wear-out mechanisms, including TDDB, BTI, HCI, EM, and SM.
• Experience with wafer-level reliability testing, test structures, and industry standards including JEDEC, AEC-Q100, and ISO 9001.
• Expertise in quality and reliability statistics, JMP, SPC charting, and failure-rate calculations across the bathtub curve.
• Knowledge of semiconductor defect analysis, root-cause failure analysis, 8D problem solving, defect screening, and degradation mechanisms in logic, memory, and analog circuits.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within the Engineering department.
• Cross-functional collaboration with design teams, foundries, OSAT partners, suppliers, and executive leadership.
• Hands-on work across semiconductor development, qualification, and manufacturing.