Onto Innovation
Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
Onto Innovation is seeking a highly experienced Software Engineer / Technical Lead to provide technical leadership and hands-on software development for advanced semiconductor inspection and metrology platforms. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for software architecture, system integration, technical problem solving, and delivery of critical NPD software capabilities. The successful candidate will work across software, hardware, optics, automation, and applications teams to develop reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions for complex capital equipment systems. The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with strong system-level thinking, hardware-software integration experience, and the ability to influence technical direction across cross-functional teams without direct people management responsibility.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of software development experience delivering complex hardware-integrated systems.
- Experience integrating software with electromechanical systems, automation platforms, or scientific instrumentation.
- Background in C#, .NET, C++, or similar object-oriented languages.
- Experience developing multi-threaded, distributed, or high-performance applications.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence engineering teams through expertise and collaboration.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional teamwork skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with semiconductor inspection, metrology, wafer handling, recipe management, factory automation, or SECS/GEM, equipment diagnostics.
- Experience supporting customer escalations, factory acceptance, system qualification, and field introduction of complex equipment platforms.
- Experience with optics, motion control, robotics, or precision instrumentation.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies, CI/CD, and automated testing.
Skills & Technologies
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Location
Wilmington, MA
Posted
5 days ago
Country
US