Lead AI Engineer — Semiconductor AI Innovation
AI summary of the role
Onto Innovation is hiring a founding Lead AI Engineer to build and lead a new AI Innovation Team in Wilmington, MA.
What you’ll do
- Define AI strategy and architecture for integrating ML into core engineering and manufacturing processes.
- Ship agentic assistants using LLM + RAG + MCP servers to accelerate tool operation and maintenance.
- Lead projects in predictive maintenance, computer vision for wafer defect detection, LLM-based assistants, process optimization, and digital twins.
- Architect robust data pipelines for multi-modal datasets (images, telemetry, logs) and stand up scalable MLOps infrastructure.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years applied ML/AI experience with 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
- Hands-on expertise in at least two of: Large Language Models (RAG, fine-tuning, agents), Predictive Modeling (anomaly detection, time-series), or Computer Vision (defect detection, segmentation).
- Strong background in ML systems architecture and production deployment.
- Advanced Python proficiency; C++/CUDA familiarity is a plus.
Technologies
LLM · RAG · MCP · PyTorch · TensorFlow · OpenCV · MLflow · Kubernetes · Ray Serve · Triton
About Onto Innovation
Process-control equipment and software vendor helping semiconductor fabs measure, inspect, analyze, and lithograph advanced nodes and packaging.
Public · 1000–2000 people
Source and classification
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manufacture advanced semiconductor inspection and metrology tools. Our solutions power innovation for the world’s leading chipmakers. As the industry moves faster than ever, we believe AI will be a key enabler of smarter, faster, and more reliable decision-making in semiconductor manufacturing. We’re building a new AI Innovation Team to explore, develop, and deploy cutting-edge machine learning systems across our product and process ecosystem. You’ll be our founding Lead AI Engineer, responsible for setting the vision, building the team, and delivering impactful AI solutions at scale. About the Role This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will work closely with senior tool designers, process engineers, and applications teams to understand complex workflows and data flows. You’ll architect, prototype, and productionize AI solutions that accelerate innovation, improve yields,How jobs are selected
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