Jobs at Onto Innovation

Manage end-to-end material flow for engineering parts, spares, tools, and systems. Responsibilities include receiving, inspection coordination, ESD-safe handling, inventory control, kitting, controlled-environment storage, domestic and international shipping, export documentation, shipment tracking, and ERP traceability. The role supports engineering, manufacturing, quality, field service, and procurement while maintaining safety, 5S, cleanroom, hazmat, and packaging standards.

Supports customer demonstrations, evaluations, benchmarking, and technical projects for semiconductor metrology and inspection product lines. Applies semiconductor manufacturing and defect inspection knowledge, analyzes technical results, presents findings, and collaborates with sales, customers, and engineering teams globally. Requires domestic and international travel up to 30%.

Supports technical sales opportunities for semiconductor metrology products by engaging customers, gathering requirements, preparing presentations and quotations, tracking CRM activities, coordinating demonstrations, and communicating customer feedback. Collaborates with sales, product, applications, service, finance, and factory teams throughout the sales cycle. Requires periodic domestic and occasional international travel to customer sites, company facilities, conferences, and trade shows.

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.

Leads architecture, requirements, integration, validation, and technical execution for complex semiconductor metrology equipment. Defines system specifications and interfaces across optics, mechanics, electronics, controls, and software. Drives trade studies, error budgets, performance modeling, reliability, root-cause analysis, and system-level testing. Collaborates with product, manufacturing, quality, and field service teams, mentors engineers, manages technical risks, and supports customer engagements.

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%.

Provides advanced applications support for semiconductor metrology products through customer demos, evaluations, onsite technical support, product qualification, solution optimization, training, and technical documentation. Develops metrology solutions involving thin-film modeling, optical critical-dimension modeling, and machine learning for semiconductor devices. Collaborates with customers and internal teams, troubleshoots technical issues, publishes technical papers when needed, and travels internationally up to 60% of the time.

Provides expert hardware and technical support for semiconductor equipment through remote assistance and customer-site escalation. Develops support plans, documentation, training, and field-service improvements; communicates findings to customers and internal teams. Supports new product development, testing, design reviews, and product qualification. Requires cleanroom work, lifting equipment up to 50 pounds, and 40% domestic and international travel.

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.

Support customers with automatic optical inspection products by providing technical assistance, training, and troubleshooting. Travel to customer sites for process integration issues and conduct system demonstrations.

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.

Leads hands-on mechanical engineering initiatives for semiconductor equipment, including prototyping, reliability testing, subsystem troubleshooting, CAD documentation, lifecycle management, manufacturing integration, validation, and technology adoption. Partners with suppliers and cross-functional teams to improve equipment reliability, quality, performance, and service costs. Requires international customer-site travel of at least 20%.

Leads strategy, business performance, product roadmaps, profitability, customer adoption, and lifecycle management for semiconductor inspection solutions. Owns product-line P&L, market strategy, investment planning, requirements, and technical direction while coordinating engineering, sales, service, finance, operations, and program teams. Engages semiconductor manufacturers and customers globally, drives product introductions and stage-gate governance, and translates manufacturing challenges into differentiated product solutions. Travel up to 25% domestically and internationally is required.

Leads strategy, profitability, roadmap execution, customer adoption, and lifecycle management for semiconductor inspection product lines. Owns product-line P&L, market strategy, requirements, investment decisions, and cross-functional execution across engineering, sales, service, operations, finance, and executive teams. Engages semiconductor manufacturers and technology partners while guiding product introductions, technical development, and customer programs. Requires extensive semiconductor industry and leadership experience with up to 30% domestic and international travel.

Supports strategy, roadmap development, and lifecycle management for semiconductor inspection products. Gathers customer requirements, defines product specifications, prioritizes features, conducts market and competitive analysis, and collaborates with engineering, sales, service, marketing, and operations. The role supports product development, validation, launches, customer evaluations, and continuous improvement while serving as a technical product subject matter expert.

Prepare and maintain customer-facing technical documentation for semiconductor hardware and software, including application, maintenance, site preparation, crating, and upgrade guides. Interview subject matter experts, write, edit, proofread, and create graphics such as screenshots, diagrams, and flowcharts. Maintain documentation standards and templates while managing multiple concurrent projects collaboratively and independently.

Leads regional supplier quality, manufacturing support, and NPI readiness across Taiwan and Asia. Conducts process audits, drives APQP and PPAP deliverables, establishes manufacturing controls, and resolves supplier and customer quality issues through structured root-cause analysis. Partners with engineering, operations, service, and supply chain teams to improve yield, reduce defects, manage product changes, and scale robust production capabilities across suppliers and extended factories.

Creates and maintains 2D drawings and 3D CAD models for mechanical and electro-mechanical assemblies. Produces manufacturing and installation documentation, applies GD&T, supports design changes and ECOs, and coordinates product-release documentation. Sources components, supports procurement, tracks lead times and supply risks, and maintains BOMs, part numbers, revisions, and engineering records in PLM/PDM systems. Collaborates with suppliers and interprets mechanical and electrical drawings.

Develop and optimize semiconductor metrology solutions for complex materials and device structures. Work with regional and international wafer fabrication customers on demonstrations, evaluations, product qualification, technical development, troubleshooting, documentation, training, and technical publications. Apply optical modeling, machine learning, statistics, and data analysis to technologies supporting 3D NAND, logic, and DRAM manufacturing.