Senior Principal Systems Engineer – Innovation Leader

Nordson; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 125,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordson Test & Inspection seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to lead the WaferSense product line. You will guide system architecture, requirements, and cross-functional development across engineering and stakeholders to deliver high-performance semiconductor solutions.

This individual contributor role with technical mentoring drives design, validation, and production readiness while translating customer needs into actionable technical priorities and ensuring robust documentation and risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of R&D and product development experience, with demonstrated success developing complex systems and leading cross-functional technical efforts.
• Experience making substantial technical contributions through design, prototyping, integration, and validation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to build agreement and explain technical recommendations clearly.
• Preferred: experience with calibration, measurement systems, test fixtures, or manufacturing-process development.

Responsibilities

• Shape system architecture and design decisions in collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Lead cross-team definition of system requirements, performance targets, and subsystem interfaces.
• Guide cross-functional development, ensuring engineering contributions integrate into a complete, effective product.
• Coordinate technical priorities, dependencies, resources, and milestones with functional and project leaders.
• Lead technical reviews and trade studies, balancing performance, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and risk.
• Contribute hands-on to design, prototyping, experiments, and troubleshooting as needed.
• Guide system integration, testing, and validation across subsystems.
• Collaborate on calibration methods, fixture architecture, and production processes.
• Lead investigations using engineering analysis and experimental evidence to resolve issues.
• Translate customer and business needs into technical requirements and development priorities.
• Ensure documentation captures consistent requirements, interfaces, decisions, and validation results.

Skills

R&D leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

System architecture

Design, prototyping, validation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical discipline

Job description

Nordson Test & Inspection seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to lead the WaferSense product line. You will guide system architecture, requirements, and cross-functional development across engineering and stakeholders to deliver high-performance semiconductor solutions.

This individual contributor role with technical mentoring drives design, validation, and production readiness while translating customer needs into actionable technical priorities and ensuring robust documentation and risk