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Quality Manager- Manufacturing Operations

Fractile· Manufacturing Operations
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Hybrid (UK)Full-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Quality leadership role in a UK-based fabless semiconductor company focused on defining and delivering the company quality strategy, building and leading a quality function across supplier, product, reliability, software and systems quality, and ensuring compliance and robust quality processes throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver the company quality strategy, policy and objectives, aligned to the product roadmap and growth plan.
  • Build, lead and develop a quality team covering supplier, product, reliability, software and systems quality.
  • Define and report quality performance to the executive team.
  • Establish appropriate document control, change control, CAPA, internal audit, training and records processes that scale with a fast-growing fabless company.
  • Work with PMO to embed quality gates into the new product introduction (NPI) and product lifecycle process, from concept through end of life.
  • Own quality across the supply chain: wafer foundry, assembly and packaging, wafer and final test, PCB/PCBA and system-level contract manufacturers.
  • Lead supplier selection, qualification, audits and ongoing performance management, including scorecards and quarterly business reviews.
  • Work with engineering leaders to define software quality standards across drivers, firmware, compilers, SDKs and runtime.
  • Establish release criteria, test coverage expectations, defect management and regression processes, aligned with CI/CD practice.
  • Bring in secure development and software supply chain practice, including SBOMs and vulnerability management.
  • Support responsible AI and AI management practice where customers ask for it, including awareness of ISO/IEC 42001.
  • Be the senior point of contact for customer quality, audits and escalations.
  • Lead customer RMA and complaint handling, root cause analysis and 8D responses to agreed timelines.
  • Ensure product compliance with RoHS, REACH, WEEE, conflict minerals reporting, UKCA and CE marking, and relevant safety and EMC standards.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in quality roles in semiconductors or electronics hardware, including creating and leading a quality function or team.
  • Direct experience managing quality through outsourced manufacturing: foundries, OSATs, test houses and/or contract manufacturers.
  • Deep knowledge of ISO 9001 and hands-on experience building or running a certified QMS.
  • Working knowledge of semiconductor qualification and reliability (JEDEC), failure analysis
  • Awareness of data centre RAS assessments and HPC system qualification and certification.
  • Fluency in core quality tools: 8D, FMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA and root cause analysis.
  • Experience handling customer quality escalations with large, demanding customers.
  • Degree in electrical or electronic engineering, materials science, physics or a related discipline.
  • Clear, confident communicator who can influence engineers, suppliers and executives, and hold partners to account.
  • Willing to travel internationally, including to Asia and US, for supplier audits and customer quality reviews.

Skills

Required:Quality strategy developmentLeadership of quality teamQuality systems (QMS)outsourced manufacturing qualityQuality toolsRegulatory compliance

Benefits

  • Competitive salary: A competitive salary reflective of your experience and the specialist nature of the role.
  • Equity & Ownership: meaningful equity so everyone shares in the value creation.
  • Benefits: Private Medical, Dental and Vision, Contributory Pension, 25 Days holiday plus bank holidays and Life/Critical Illness Insurance.
  • Diverse & fun office: we believe the hardest problems get solved by the broadest range of minds. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a diverse team and building an inclusive environment.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Radically Accelerate Frontier Model Inference

Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.

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