Senior Manager, Systems Engineering

Onto Innovation•Milpitas, CA

18h

About The Position

The Senior Manager of Systems Engineering contributes throughout the product life cycle, including new product development, product improvement, and customer escalation resolution. The role requires a deep understanding of the technologies that enable metrology tool functionality. The manager provides engineering leadership in the physics, optimization, and technical problem-solving of full Mueller matrix spectroscopic ellipsometer technology and leads systems engineers in productizing next-generation OCD spectroscopic ellipsometer metrology systems and developing advanced optical metrology technology platforms. The position provides cross-functional leadership across marketing, customer-facing teams, manufacturing, service, and R&D; drives new product introduction and customer qualification for high-volume manufacturing adoption; and serves as a point of contact for suppliers of critical components such as broadband light sources, lasers, modulators, and detection subsystems. The role also leads development of next-generation products based on existing technology and oversees systems engineering work supporting product technical support, subsystem characterization, product robustness, reliability, sensitivity, automation, system uptime, application expansion, customer escalations, and manufacturing and field-service training.

Requirements

Ph.D. in optical engineering, physics, electrical engineering, or another relevant discipline.
5–10 years of experience in the semiconductor capital equipment industry.
Through knowledge of spectroscopy, ellipsometry, and reflectometry metrology techniques.
Strong technical background and ability to communicate effectively and persuasively with customers, engineers, designers, and stakeholders.
Strong organizational, human resource management, and planning skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile, and dynamic environment, perform under stress, and work as part of a team.
Strong interpersonal, teaming, and problem-solving skills.
Expertise in the responsibilities of the systems engineering team reporting to this position, including product support, subsystem characterization, performance requirements, product robustness, reliability, sensitivity, automation, uptime, application expansion, escalations, and training.
Travel expectations of up to 25%.

Nice To Haves

International business experience.

Responsibilities

Provide engineering leadership in the physics, optimization, and technical problem-solving of full Mueller matrix spectroscopic ellipsometer technology.
Lead systems engineers in productizing next-generation OCD spectroscopic ellipsometer metrology systems.
Drive development of technology platforms for next-generation advanced optical metrology products.
Lead cross-functional collaboration with corporate marketing, customer-facing teams, manufacturing, service organizations, and R&D groups.
Drive new product introduction and customer qualification processes for adoption by high-volume manufacturing customers.
Interface with internal and external suppliers of critical components, including advanced broadband light sources, lasers, modulators, and detection subsystems.
Oversee product JEP technical support and subsystem characterization and performance-requirement generation.
Lead continuous improvement design engineering activities to enhance product robustness.
Support development activities that improve system reliability, sensitivity, automation, uptime, and application range.
Support system-related escalations from beta-site teams.
Generate training materials and documentation and provide training for manufacturing and field-service teams for product release and support.
Drive development of next-generation products leveraged from existing technology.