Applications Engineer 3

About the Role

Onto Innovation is seeking an Applications Engineer to support demo activities for IRIS, ATLAS, IMPULSE, and ASPECT product lines. This role is critical for demonstrating the advantages of Onto Innovation metrology systems to customers, supporting the sales process, and contributing to revenue growth and share gains.

Key Responsibilities

• Support demo activities for IRIS, ATLAS, IMPULSE, and ASPECT product lines.
• Demonstrate the advantages of Onto Innovation metrology systems to customers as requested by Account teams to support the Sales process.
• Support MBU opportunities totaling over $85,000,000 of potential annual revenue amount.
• Ensure quality of demo results and minimize delays in the demo process for OCD and Thin Film.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related field.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing processes and defect inspection fundamentals.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines and organizational levels.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30%.
• Experience working effectively in multinational and multicultural environments with geographically distributed teams and customers.

Qualifications

• 0–2 years of experience (including internships or co-ops) in semiconductor manufacturing, applications engineering, process engineering, metrology, inspection, or related fields.
• Preferred: Experience with semiconductor inspection, metrology, AOI, imaging systems, or advanced packaging solutions.
• Preferred: Familiarity with data analysis tools such as Python, MATLAB, JMP, SQL, or Excel.
• Preferred: Experience supporting customer demonstrations, evaluations, benchmarking studies, or technical projects.
• Preferred: Familiarity with semiconductor manufacturing workflows and yield improvement methodologies.
• Preferred: Experience presenting technical results to customers, management, or engineering teams.
• Preferred: Experience supporting customers and engineering organizations across Asia and Europe.