Senior NPD Software Engineering Manager

Onto Innovation; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

PTO

401(k) match

ESPP

Wellness programs

Job summary

Onto Innovation is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, NPD Software to lead a global software organization responsible for new product development across inspection, metrology, automation, data acquisition, image processing, and customer-facing workflow software.

The ideal candidate combines deep software leadership with semiconductor equipment knowledge, guiding architecture, quality, and cross-functional delivery from concept through release.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead the NPD software team through full product development lifecycle from requirements to release and sustaining transition.
• Own software execution for new product programs with predictable delivery against scope, schedule, quality, reliability, and customer commitments.
• Partner with systems, hardware, optics, algorithms, applications, product management, manufacturing, service, and program management to define integrated software solutions for complex semiconductor capital equipment.
• Drive software architecture, design reviews, code quality, tech debt reduction, cybersecurity readiness, scalability, maintainability, and long-term platform reuse.
• Ensure robust hardware/software integration for motion control, sensors, detectors, image acquisition, data pipelines, recipe execution, diagnostics, calibration, and workflow automation.
• Establish engineering discipline around requirements traceability, defect management, configuration management, CI/CD, automated tests, release readiness, and change control.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for complex software and system integration issues during NPD and early field adoption.
• Build, mentor, and retain a high-performing global engineering team, including technical leads and test engineers.
• Develop staffing plans, capability roadmaps, succession plans, and skill-development strategies aligned to roadmap.
• Communicate program status, risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and recovery plans to senior leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Software architecture

Requirements management

Design reviews

Code reviews

Test strategy

Defect triage

Release governance

Sustaining handoff

Global teamwork

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/EE

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

C++

C#

.NET

Python

Windows/Linux

Real-time control

Distributed systems

Image processing

Databases

UI software

Job description

Onto Innovation is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, NPD Software to lead a global software organization responsible for new product development across inspection, metrology, automation, data acquisition, image processing, and customer-facing workflow software.

The ideal candidate combines deep software leadership with semiconductor equipment knowledge, guiding architecture, quality, and cross-functional delivery from concept through release.