Senior Electrical Engineer
Onto InnovationJob Title
Senior Electrical Engineer
Role Summary
Design and validate analog/digital electronics and embedded firmware for semiconductor capital equipment. Work on system-level architecture, PCB design direction, firmware/FPGA development, motion control, and production test development within a product development team.
The role supports system characterization, compliance testing, customer-facing technical activities, and occasional international travel to customer sites.
Experience Level
Senior - role expects experienced engineers. The posting requires a minimum of 5 years of work experience in a product development environment.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include end-to-end hardware and firmware development, validation, and cross-functional support.
- Design analog and digital circuits, select components, create schematics, and specify interconnect/cabling.
- Contribute to system-level architecture for semiconductor capital equipment and guide PCB layout work.
- Develop firmware for PLDs, FPGAs, and microcontrollers; work with FPGA/ASIC flows and Verilog.
- Design and implement motion control for servo/stepper motors and automated robotic systems.
- Create performance characterization, validation and compliance test plans; participate in system-level testing.
- Define functional requirements and performance specifications; document designs and produce FMEA analyses.
- Develop and document production test processes with pass/fail criteria and assist troubleshooting of failing components/designs.
- Provide technical support to sales and service teams and communicate designs and status to engineering and management.
- Follow the product lifecycle process and collaborate across hardware and software teams.
- Travel internationally to customer sites at least 20% of the time as required.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and experience; select items noted as nice-to-have.
- Must-have: Proven motion control experience with servo/stepper motors and related control systems.
- Must-have: Experience with embedded microprocessors and firmware development for PLD/FPGA/microcontrollers; familiarity with Verilog and ASIC/FPGA concepts.
- Must-have: Experience using PCB layout tools; experience with Altium is a plus.
- Must-have: Track record in product development of integrated systems (examples: motion control, staging, optics, imaging, illumination, PC-based control systems, power management).
- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot electronic designs and to develop production test requirements.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work across organizational levels.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and to support cross-functional teams.
- Nice-to-have: Familiarity with semiconductor wafer processing, defect inspection equipment, automated test equipment, and probe cards.
- Nice-to-have: Familiarity with compliance standards such as SEMI, CE, UL, CDRH.
Education Requirements
BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering required. The posting also specifies a minimum of 5 years of work experience in a product development environment.
About the Company
Company: Onto Innovation
Headquarters: Wilmington, MA, United States
Onto Innovation develops process-control solutions for the semiconductor industry, offering optical inspection, 3D metrology, defect inspection, composition analysis, factory analytics, and lithography technologies to improve yield, performance, and reliability across the semiconductor value chain.
