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Our breadth of offerings across the entire semiconductor value chain helps our customers solve their most difficult yield, device performance, quality, and reliability issues. Onto Innovation strives to optimize customers’ critical path of progress by making them smarter, faster and more efficient.\nJob Summary & Responsibilities\nPosition Summary:\nThe Senior R&D Scientist will join the Advanced Analytics R&D team across Milpitas, California and Singapore. 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