# Staff Applications Engineer

Onto Innovation is a leader in process control, combining global scale with an expanded portfolio of leading-edge technologies that include: 3D metrology spanning the chip from nanometer-scale transistors to micron-level die-interconnects; macro defect inspection of wafers and packages; metal interconnect composition; factory analytics; and lithography for advanced semiconductor packaging. 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. Job Summary & Responsibilities Onto Innovation is seeking a Staff Applications Engineer to support its lithography product portfolio. This role is ideal for an experienced lithography process engineer who has developed and optimized production lithography processes in a semiconductor, advanced packaging, substrate, or electronics manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering teams to develop lithography applications, characterize new capabilities, validate syste

- **Id**: 4293319
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/onto-innovation-staff-applications-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T00:14:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8248
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Test & Measurement Instruments, Semiconductor Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 2025019
- **Name**: Onto Innovation
- **Domain**: ontoinnovation.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ontoinnovation>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 30
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 129600
- **Max**: 194400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 194400

## Technologies

- **Photolithography** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T00:14:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 26 · green card filings: 12; Filings 12m: 26

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 42
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T01:49:11Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 194400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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