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Graphcore is seeking a Supply Quality Engineer to own supplier quality across the company's AI hardware production ramp-up. Based in Hsinchu or Taipei, Taiwan, you will manage assigned suppliers from qualification through sustained quality improvement of server-grade components, ensuring new products reach manufacturing with understood risks, controlled processes, and components that consistently meet specifications.
Key responsibilities include:
- Assess manufacturing capability, traceability and change control at supplier sites
- Turn audit findings into actionable items that prevent defects
- Drive containment, root-cause analysis and corrective action when issues arise
- Verify that fixes work before closing actions
- Build technical depth across server-grade components and modules, understanding their manufacturing processes, failure modes and reliability risks
- Connect hands-on factory investigation with broader supply chain strategy for AI compute
You will work within Quality within Manufacturing Operations, collaborating with colleagues in Bristol, Cambridge and Hsinchu. Your role involves direct engagement with engineering, sourcing, operations and suppliers, using quality data and manufacturing evidence to drive practical actions. You will set priorities independently, communicate material risks early, and maintain visibility to keep suppliers accountable.
The role requires willingness to travel within Taiwan and internationally for supplier audits, qualifications, issue resolution and new product introduction.
Requirements:
- Engineering degree or equivalent practical background
- Hands-on experience in supplier quality, supplier development, manufacturing quality or process engineering
- Technical understanding of at least one server-grade component or module category, with ability to learn additional commodities
- Ability to lead supplier audits independently, evaluate manufacturing risks and drive cross-functional actions to closure
- Practical knowledge of supplier qualification, process controls, PFMEA, control plans, SPC and structured problem-solving (8D or 5 Why)
- Clear English reporting, effective supplier-facing communication and stakeholder management with sound escalation judgment
- Legal right to work in Taiwan (visa sponsorship not available)
