Supplier Quality Engineer

About the role

As the Supplier Quality Engineer for Lumentum's Semiconductor Commodity portfolio, you will partner closely with Design Authority, Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Commodity Management, Reliability Engineering, and strategic suppliers to ensure supplier capability, manufacturing readiness, product quality and process stability throughout the complete product lifecycle—from technology development and supplier selection through New Product Introduction (NPI), production ramping up, and sustaining manufacturing. This role is ideal for a technically strong engineer with expertise in semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging technologies, and supplier development. Success requires the ability to influence technical decisions across global organizations while developing supplier capabilities that enable innovation, manufacturing scalability, and world-class product quality.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the Supplier Quality Engineer for Lumentum's Semiconductor Commodity portfolio
• Own the supplier quality strategy supporting semiconductor technology roadmaps across multiple Business Units
• Provide supplier quality leadership throughout the complete product lifecycle, from technology development through sustaining production
• Partner with Design Authority, Product Engineering and Commodity Management to influence supplier selection, manufacturing strategy, technology roadmaps, and supplier capability development
• Support multiple concurrent NPI programs while balancing business priorities, supplier readiness, manufacturing capacity, and technology maturity
• Lead supplier qualification, manufacturing capability assessments, process audits, and supplier process readiness evaluations for strategic semiconductor suppliers
• Evaluate supplier manufacturing maturity, process capability, and operational excellence across wafer fabrication, assembly, packaging, and test operations
• Develop supplier improvement roadmaps focused on quality, yield, process capability and stability, manufacturing robustness, and operational excellence
• Identify supplier risks and develop mitigation strategies supporting business continuity, supply resiliency, and product quality
• Drive Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement initiatives with strategic suppliers

About you

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Materials Science, Semiconductor Engineering, Physics, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Quality, Product Quality, Process Engineering, or Quality Engineering within a high-technology semiconductor manufacturing environment
• Technical understanding of semiconductor manufacturing technologies, including wafer fabrication, epitaxial growth, lithography, thin-film deposition, etch, CMP, bumping, wafer probing, singulation, assembly, packaging, and final test
• Experience with compound semiconductor or photonic technologies such as InP, GaAs, Silicon Photonics, CMOS, SOI, or advanced semiconductor packaging
• Experience supporting supplier qualification, process validation, New Product Introduction (NPI), foundry qualification, manufacturing transfer, and production ramp activities
• Knowledge of semiconductor quality systems, statistical process control, process capability analysis, FMEA, Control Plans, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), JEDEC qualification standards, and structured problem-solving methodologies
• Familiarity with semiconductor reliability qualifications, including HTOL, HAST, thermal cycling
• Familiarity with 8D failure analysis techniques
• Excellent communication, organizational, project management, and leadership skills
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (approximately 20–30%)

About us

Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a global leader in optical and photonic technologies that power the networks and infrastructure behind AI, cloud computing, and next-generation communications. Built on decades of photonics innovation, Lumentum delivers high-performance lasers, modules, and optical subsystems that enable scalable, energy-efficient data center connectivity, advanced telecom networks, industrial manufacturing, and sensing applications. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company operates R&D, manufacturing, and sales facilities worldwide.