Jobs at Onto Innovation

Drives NPI service readiness for semiconductor inspection and metrology products. Responsibilities include defining service requirements, improving serviceability and diagnostics, creating documentation, validating tools and calibrations, managing spare-parts readiness, coordinating beta support, developing training, and resolving early customer escalations. The role collaborates internationally with R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, and field service teams and requires travel exceeding 25% as needed.

Lead architecture, integration, verification, and optimization of complex optical or electron-beam imaging systems. Define system requirements, manage interfaces, conduct error budgeting and tolerance analysis, troubleshoot performance issues, analyze test and field data, collaborate across engineering and manufacturing teams, and support customer escalations. International travel to customer sites is required at least 20% of the time.

Owns service readiness and lifecycle support for released semiconductor products. Leads sustaining NPI, upgrades, retrofits, FCO rollouts, service BOMs, FRU strategy, tooling, documentation, training, spares, field validation, and change control. Coordinates cross-functional engineering, field service, supply chain, manufacturing, and product teams. Uses field data to improve reliability, serviceability, MTTR, PM duration, spare availability, and cost of service while supporting product lifecycle and installed-base upgrades.

Owns service readiness and lifecycle support for released semiconductor products. Leads sustaining NPI, engineering changes, field upgrades, retrofits, FCO rollouts, service BOMs, tooling, documentation, training, spares, and field validation. Coordinates cross-functional teams to improve reliability, serviceability, uptime, cost, and product supportability. Analyzes field performance and service data, leads root-cause investigations, and drives corrective actions, lifecycle improvements, and global deployment plans.

Owns service readiness and lifecycle support for released semiconductor capital equipment. Leads sustaining NPI activities, including upgrades, retrofits, FCOs, service BOMs, FRU strategy, tooling, documentation, training, spare parts, field validation, and rollout planning. Coordinates engineering changes, root-cause investigations, reliability improvements, supply chain readiness, and cost-of-service initiatives across global cross-functional teams.

Lead the architecture and production deployment of AI and agentic systems for semiconductor metrology. Build LLM-based workflows grounded in tool data, manuals, recipes, and measurement outcomes; develop evaluation harnesses, uncertainty-aware ML, and on-premises inference. Establish engineering standards, testing, monitoring, CI/CD, security, and responsible AI practices while mentoring engineers and translating customer fab challenges into reliable AI solutions.

Own hardware integration and characterization of semiconductor metrology subsystems. Perform error-budget analyses, establish specifications, measure performance, troubleshoot precision electromechanical systems, and lead prototypes into production. The role requires expertise in motion control, vibration and modal analysis, sensors, isolation systems, mechanical design, CAD, finite element analysis, and cleanroom environments. It is fully on-site, includes cross-functional collaboration and technical leadership, and requires travel to vendor and customer sites up to approximately 30%.

Leads systems engineering for advanced semiconductor optical metrology products, including physics, optimization, new product development, productization, customer qualification, reliability improvements, and technical escalations. Manages systems engineers, drives next-generation technology platforms, coordinates cross-functional teams and suppliers, and supports manufacturing and field service through product release and training.

Lead mechanical engineering for advanced semiconductor metrology instruments across concept, design, prototyping, testing, and product release. Design precision motion systems, optical mounts, positioning mechanisms, and mechatronic architectures. Apply control theory, vibration and modal analysis, servo tuning, and isolation techniques to achieve micron- and nanometer-level accuracy. Collaborate with electrical, software, manufacturing, and operations teams while leading small teams and supporting customer-site deployments.

Leads global service operations strategy, governance, performance management, installation and product acceptance, workforce planning, budgeting, and operational improvement. Oversees geographically distributed technical organizations, aligns cross-functional stakeholders, manages service capacity and financial objectives, and drives customer experience and scalable execution across semiconductor capital-equipment operations.

Develops and optimizes optical metrology systems for semiconductor equipment. Responsibilities include aligning and validating complex optical systems, designing experiments, troubleshooting performance, defining system requirements, supporting first-in-fab installations and tool matching, and communicating methods through technical presentations, procedures, and training. The role collaborates with software, hardware, and applications teams and requires up to 20% international travel.

Coordinates material allocation, production scheduling, work orders, engineering change updates, inventory, labor, and purchasing activities for custom-configured capital equipment manufacturing. Adjusts schedules based on forecasts, tool configurations, inventory, and capacity changes; communicates risks and resolves shortages. Tracks schedule commitments, material status, activity levels, and documentation accuracy while supporting ERP/MRP planning and production scheduling improvements.

Provide expert hardware and technical support for semiconductor manufacturing tools through remote assistance and customer-site visits. Develop support plans, communicate findings, improve documentation, relay field quality issues to design engineers, train Field Service Engineers, and support new product development, testing, and qualification. The role requires cleanroom work, equipment handling, international and domestic travel, and occasional field service support.

Supports sustaining engineering and new product development for semiconductor metrology systems. Designs hardware features, improves product performance and reliability, manages component obsolescence and engineering change releases, conducts experiments on complex optical systems, and provides advanced escalation support. Collaborates across hardware, software, manufacturing, service, and operations teams. Occasional domestic and international travel may be required.

Designs and develops precision mechanical components and complex electromechanical semiconductor equipment from concept through manufacturing release and sustaining. Performs tolerance and finite element analyses, creates production drawings, supports prototypes and validation, ensures compliance with industry standards, and provides technical support to sales and service teams. Requires strong communication, mechanical engineering fundamentals, and experience with product development, precision mechanisms, and 3D CAD.

Develop and optimize optical metrology systems for semiconductor equipment. Responsibilities include aligning, validating, troubleshooting, and improving complex optical systems; designing experiments; defining system requirements; supporting prototype development, tool installation, and tool matching; and communicating methods through technical presentations, procedures, and training. The role collaborates with software, hardware, and applications teams and requires international travel of up to 15%.

Develop and optimize optical metrology technologies for semiconductor equipment. Responsibilities include aligning, validating, troubleshooting, and improving complex optical systems; designing experiments; defining system requirements; collaborating with software, hardware, and applications teams; supporting first-in-fab installations and tool matching; and creating technical documentation and training materials. Requires international travel of up to 20%.

Leads software architecture, integration, and performance optimization for R/Theta motion-stage subsystems in semiconductor inspection and metrology platforms. Develops real-time motion-control software, coordinate transformation, calibration, compensation, and optimization algorithms. Defines requirements and automated calibration workflows, integrates software with mechanical, electrical, controls, and systems engineering, and troubleshoots complex hardware-software issues while providing technical leadership across engineering programs.

Develop and optimize optical metrology systems for semiconductor equipment. Responsibilities include aligning and validating complex optical systems, designing experiments, troubleshooting performance, defining requirements with software and hardware teams, supporting first-in-fab installations and tool matching, and creating technical documentation and training materials. The role requires hands-on laboratory and prototype experience, semiconductor metrology expertise, and up to 20% international travel.

The Principal Systems Analyst is responsible for supporting and enhancing Oracle ERP solutions in supply chain and logistics, driving improvements in operational efficiency and data analysis.