Principal Supply Chain Engineer – Factory Quality
Houston, TX - USA
Job Summary
Oracle is seeking a Factory Quality Engineer to join our Quality organization and help ensure the quality reliability and manufacturing readiness of complex hardware products. This role is responsible for incoming quality control (IQC) outgoing quality control (OQC) outgoing box audit (OBA) factory quality field quality reliability and operational health metrics.
You will work directly with Oracles manufacturing partners and cross-functional engineering teams to identify factory quality risks ensure manufacturing issues are understood and contained drive root cause and corrective actions to closure and strengthen manufacturing controls.
You will use manufacturing yield data test coverage OBA findings root cause and corrective action (RCCA) methodologies and risk assessment to protect manufacturing delivery outgoing quality and field reliability. This role requires strong technical judgment disciplined problem solving and the ability to translate factory quality data into clear actions and risk-based recommendations that support successful product ramps and OK-to-Ramp and OK-to-Ship decisions.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Monitor factory quality performance across assigned products and manufacturing sites including IQC OQC OBA L10/L11 yield first-pass yield (FPY) accumulated-pass yield (APY) retest rates failure pareto and test stability.
- Analyze factory quality signals to identify emerging risks containment gaps unresolved manufacturing issues and potential customer escapes before products ramp or ship.
- Lead factory issue containment failure-data reviews RCCA follow-up and corrective-action validation in partnership with manufacturing partners suppliers and Oracle engineering teams.
- Ensure process escapes rework risks test instability and recurring failure modes are documented assigned to clear owners and tracked through verified closure.
- Review factory test coverage to ensure known failure modes can be effectively detected before shipment.
- Validate the effectiveness of OBA controls in identifying workmanship configuration labeling packaging cosmetic documentation and functional escapes.
- Partner with Manufacturing and Test teams to address yield gaps reduce debug and retest churn improve test stability and prevent recurring production-line failures.
- Support NCAT SSP program-readiness reviews and executive quality updates with clear data concise risk assessments and recommended actions.
- Work frequently on-site with manufacturing partners to verify that process controls inspection criteria rework instructions escalation paths and quality gates are established and effective.
- Build and maintain factory quality risk registers for key programs including containment status RCCA ownership target closure dates and residual risk.
- Support OK-to-Ramp and OK-to-Ship decisions by ensuring remaining quality risks are clearly documented current and actionable.
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience in manufacturing quality process quality supplier quality product quality hardware quality reliability engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Strong working knowledge of IQC OQC OBA factory test flows yield metrics pareto analysis retest rates containment and corrective-action processes.
- Experience applying structured RCCA methodologies such as 8D 5-Why Fishbone CAPA or other disciplined problem-solving approaches.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze failure data distinguish known issues from emerging risks and drive fact-based problem resolution with manufacturing partners suppliers and internal engineering teams.
- Ability to exercise sound technical and quality judgment when working with incomplete data particularly during production ramps or under shipment pressure.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to clearly summarize technical issues quality risks business impact and required actions for cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with external manufacturers suppliers manufacturing engineering test engineering field teams repair operations or similar organizations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with server rack-level GPU networking storage power thermal or other data center infrastructure products particularly advanced AI infrastructure platforms.
- Experience supporting new product introduction (NPI) production ramps OK-to-Ramp OK-to-Ship stop-ship containment or customer-impacting quality reviews.
- Familiarity with test coverage validation FMEA control plans statistical process control (SPC) design of experiments (DOE) or reliability qualification.
- Experience working with high-volume manufacturing partners original design manufacturers (ODMs) contract manufacturers (CMs) electronics manufacturers (EMs) repair operations or supplier factory audits.
- Six Sigma Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) Lean or equivalent quality or reliability training.
Qualifications
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements such as immunization/occupational health mandates and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102300 to $209500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience market conditions and locations as well as reflect Oracles differing products industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical dental and vision insurance including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC4
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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