Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems & Robotics

Onto Innovation Inc.; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 115,200 - 172,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

Life & disability insurance

PTO

401(k) with employer match

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Job summary

Onto Innovation is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and develop software for reliable wafer handling, robotics coordination, safety interlocks, motion control, system orchestration, and factory automation interfaces for a standardized EFEM platform.

The ideal candidate has strong real-time software design experience, expertise in .NET/C#, and proven HW/SW integration across complex electromechanical systems. Travel domestically ~10% and international travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience for highly technical applications.
• Experience leading architecture/design of large-scale, mission-critical software systems.
• Strong knowledge of hardware-software integration and complex systems.
• Deep expertise in .NET including runtime behavior, performance, threading, and memory management.
• Strong C# proficiency using modern features.
• Experience designing/maintaining APIs and integration points (internal IPC via gRPC; external interfaces).
• Mastery of concurrency design and debugging multi-threaded environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as lead software engineer on new projects, determining requirements and a robust design, and collaborating with hardware engineers to ensure seamless hardware-software integration.
• Develop software modules for wafer-handling robotics, load ports, sensors, pre-aligners, and system-level orchestration.
• Design extensible APIs, control interfaces, and internal communication frameworks.
• Optimize software performance and ensure scalability.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to more junior team members.
• Develop automated tests, simulation tools, and validation frameworks for EFEM software.
• Perform system-level troubleshooting, data analysis, and optimization of EFEM software performance.
• Identify and drive process, architecture, and code quality improvements across the EFEM software stack and across multiple teams/modules.

Skills

10+ years software experience

Architecture leadership

Roadmaps & planning

HW/SW integration

.NET proficiency

C# proficiency

API design

Concurrency design

Debugging multithreaded apps

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Tools

.NET

C#

gRPC

API versioning

DI & modularity

Job description

Onto Innovation is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and develop software for reliable wafer handling, robotics coordination, safety interlocks, motion control, system orchestration, and factory automation interfaces for a standardized EFEM platform.

The ideal candidate has strong real-time software design experience, expertise in .NET/C#, and proven HW/SW integration across complex electromechanical systems. Travel domestically ~10% and international travel as needed.