Senior Aerospace, Defense, Government (ADG) Quality Management System Engineer

About the role

The Senior ADG Quality Management System Engineer is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and continuously improving the Quality Management System (QMS), compliance framework, and product assurance processes required to support Aerospace, Defense, and Government (ADG) market segments for Altera.

This role serves as the quality and compliance authority for ADG programs, ensuring adherence to applicable regulatory, contractual, and industry standards and ADG customer-specific requirements. The position requires deep knowledge of ADG standards and compliance framework and experience with practical approaches in implementing and ensuring compliance for fabless semiconductor models.

The individual will partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Supply Chain, Program Management, Legal, Security, and third-party service providers to ensure end-to-end compliance across the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive companywide standards and certification requirements for ADG
• Lead AS9100 certification and QML/MIL-PRF-38535 conformance of Altera organization worldwide
• Establish and implement defense-specific risk management, traceability, configuration management, and governance processes, aligning to ADG requirements
• Review contracts with business acumen mindset, focusing on quality and regulatory clauses, organizational standards conformance, and ensure effective flow-down
• Support export compliance and controlled data handling in partnership with Legal/Compliance
• Integrate ADG requirements into product lifecycle, design reviews, verification/validation, change management, and failure analysis
• Drive establishment of KPI/matrix to measure readiness and maturity towards ADG compliance across organizations
• Support internal audits, third-party accreditation audits, and customer/government approval audits

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in engineering (Electrical, Electronics or related field) with minimum 10 years of working experience in semiconductor industry, aerospace / defense quality system
• In-depth knowledge of AS9100, ISO9001, IATF16949 and QML/MIL-PRF-38535
• Working knowledge in DFAR/ITAR/EAR export controls, Trusted Foundry programs, AS5553, CMMC, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, Secure FPGA flows, Anti-Tamper, ANSI/ESDA S20.20, ISO17025, DO-254, DO-178C
• Experience in leading quality management system internal and external audits (third-party certification body, customers, vendors)
• Preferred Qualifications: Proven track record enabling ADG QMS, compliance and certification in semiconductor environment
• Experience as ISO9001 or AS9100 or IATF16949 Lead Auditor (internal / external)
• Experience in FPGA or complex SoC product environments
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent
• Experience in collaborating directly with Tier 1 ADG suppliers