Manager, Systems Engineering

Onto Innovation•Hillsboro, OR

17h•Onsite

About The Position

The Manager of Systems Engineering plays a key role throughout all phases of a product’s life cycle, making critical contributions to new product development efforts, product improvement programs, and customer escalation resolution efforts. This is enabled through a deep understanding of the entirety of the technology which enables a metrology tool’s functionality. The ideal candidate will have strong technical capabilities as well as a pragmatic, results-oriented focus and possess a reputation for getting new products to the market on time and meeting requirements.

Requirements

Strong technical background and ability to communicate effectively and persuasively with customers, engineers, designers, and stakeholders.
Strategic thinker with a proven ability to integrate and lead diverse corporate cultures while delivering results.
Expertise in user research, data analysis, and product strategy.
Passionate about technology, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
Strong organizational, human resource management, and planning skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile, and dynamic environment, perform under stress, and be a team player.
Strong interpersonal, teaming, and problem-solving skills.
Expertise in the responsibilities of the team of systems engineers that will be reporting to the Sr. Manager of Systems Engineering are also critical requirements.
Ph.D. degree in optical engineering, physics, EE or other relevant disciplines.
5-10 years of experience in semiconductor capital equipment industry.
Through knowledge of spectroscopy, ellipsometry and reflectometry metrology techniques.

Nice To Haves

International business experience, preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide engineering leadership on the physics, optimization, and technical problem solving for industry leading full Mueller matrix spectroscopic ellipsometer technology.
Lead a group of systems engineers to drive productization of Onto Innovation’s next generation OCD Spectroscopic Ellipsometer Metrology Systems.
Drive the development of new technology platforms for the next generation of advanced optical metrology products.
Demonstrate cross functional leadership skills with corporate marketing, customer facing groups, manufacturing and service organizations and R&D groups.
Drive the NPI and customer qualification processes for high volume manufacturing customer adoption.
Act as the key point of contact to interface with suppliers, both internal and external, of critical components, such as advanced broadband light sources, lasers/modulators, detection subsystems.
Product JEP technical support
Subsystem characterization and performance requirements generation
CIP design engineering activities to enhance product robustness
Supporting development activities that enhance reliability and sensitivity of the system, improve automation and system up-time, and expand the application domain of the product.
Supporting system related escalations from beta site teams.
Generating the material for and providing the training with the documentation needed by the manufacturing and field service teams for product release and support.
Drive development of the next generation products that are leveraged from the existing technology.