About this role
Job title: R&D Quality Manager - Optical Connectivity
About the Role Join Koch IP Holdings, LLC as an R&D Quality Manager focused on optical connectivity products. This role leads the development and maintenance of the R&D quality management system across the full cycle from prototype to NPI transfer, drives audit readiness, and collaborates with R&D and manufacturing to ensure robust product quality and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do
- Establish and improve the R&D quality management system for optical connectivity products, formulate quality control specifications for the whole R&D cycle from prototype development to NPI transfer, and standardize quality inspection requirements for R&D output.
- Lead quality planning for new optical connectivity R&D projects, confirm quality acceptance criteria for R&D prototypes and pre-mass products, and track the closed-loop rectification of quality risks found in the R&D process.
- Organize and coordinate all preparations for customer and regulatory factory audits for the R&D department, sort out and output audit materials including R&D process documents, quality records, test reports, etc., coordinate the rectification of audit non-conformities, and track the closing of correction measures.
- Cooperate with R&D and testing teams to optimize the product testing quality system: review the rationality of optical performance, reliability and environmental testing schemes for R&D products, supervise the standardization of testing processes, verify the correctness of test results, and sort out and archive test quality records.
- Count and analyze quality data in the R&D stage, summarize repeated quality problems, put forward targeted R&D process optimization suggestions, and promote continuous improvement of R&D output quality.
- Cooperate with the mass production quality department to complete the quality handover of NPI projects, and support the solution of quality abnormal problems in the early stage of mass production.
What We're Looking For
- Education: Bachelor's degree or above in Quality Management, Mechatronics, Optoelectronic Engineering or related fields.
- Experience: 5+ years of quality management experience in the optoelectronic, semiconductor or communications industry.
- Preferred: Experience in R&D quality assurance for optical connectivity or packaging products is preferred.
- Knowledge and Skills: Familiar with ISO9001 and other quality management system requirements; master the process of factory audit response and non-conformity rectification; practical experience in organizing customer audits or third-party audits; understanding of the R&D and testing process of optoelectronic products; familiar with common reliability test standards and quality inspection methods for optical connectivity products; proficient in quality analysis tools such as FMEA, 8D and Pareto analysis.
Nice to Have
- Experience in R&D quality assurance for optical connectivity or packaging products is preferred.