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About the Role
Drive supplier quality, component reliability, and material readiness. Identify technical risks, improve manufacturing processes, and ensure robust quality performance throughout development and mass production. Strive to provide customers an experience of enduring quality products through supplier quality management and collaboration with product development, Operations, and component suppliers.
Responsibilities
- Owns quality and manufacturing capability of suppliers from material development through qualification and production ramp.
- Drives root cause resolution, process improvement, and supplier accountability to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes across the product lifecycle.
- Lead failure analysis, root cause investigation, and process characterization efforts.
- Ownership of cross-functional resolution to closure.
- Apply structured problem-solving to complex, ambiguous supplier issues.
- Analyze current-state supplier and manufacturing data to identify latent inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
- Translate insights into new quality strategies, tooling, or process innovations across suppliers and cross-regional teams.
- Proactively mine manufacturing and supplier data to uncover hidden patterns.
- Use AI/ML or automated analytics to design novel quality tools, early-warning systems, or process innovations.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in supplier quality management.
- Driving quality issue resolution and process ownership within semiconductor or camera manufacturing.
- Proven senior-level experience leading failure analysis, root cause investigation, and process characterization efforts.
- Advanced proficiency in statistical and data-analysis methods (SPC, process capability analysis, DOE, MSA, correlation analysis).
- Deep expertise in semiconductor component materials (substrates, interconnect materials, metal components, ceramic materials).
- Experience leading material quality management.
- Proven ability to lead high-stakes technical discussions, supplier reviews, and problem-solving meetings independently.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze current-state supplier and manufacturing data to identify latent inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
- Proven track record of proactively mining manufacturing and supplier data (beyond routine monitoring) to uncover hidden patterns.
Skills
- Supplier quality management
- Component reliability
- Material readiness
- Technical risk identification
- Manufacturing process improvement
- Quality performance assurance
- Root cause resolution
- Process improvement
- Supplier accountability
- Failure analysis
- Process characterization
- Statistical and data-analysis methods (SPC, process capability analysis, DOE, MSA, correlation analysis)
- Structured problem-solving
- Semiconductor component materials expertise
- Material quality management
- Japanese language proficiency
- English language proficiency
- Data analysis
- AI/ML
- Automated analytics
Location
- Tokyo, Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
About the Company
- At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly.
- The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries.
- It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts.
- Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found it.