Electrical Engineer 3 - Milpitas-CA, United States
$108,000 - $162,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 March 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Electrical Engineer 3 develops new system architecture, establishes design requirements, and oversees industrial control panel and PCB design, layout, and bring-up. The role focuses on characterizing, troubleshooting, and improving complex lithography and optical inspection/metrology systems.
What you'll do
- Oversee industrial control panel and PCB design, layout, and bring-up, ensuring compliance with signal integrity, EMI/EMC, and safety standards. - Design and conduct experiments to characterize, troubleshoot, and improve complex lithography and optical inspection/metrology systems. - Ensure electrical designs meet regulatory and industry standards, including SEMI, NFPA, CE, and UL. - Design and build test fixtures for component and subsystem testing, composing procedures for construction or qualification of assemblies. - Collaborate with manufacturing and QC to improve testing, troubleshooting protocols, and alignment of parts, components, subassemblies, and final assemblies. - Support domestic and international travel up to 5%.
What you'll need
- Experience with semiconductor equipment motor, pneumatic, and temperature control systems. - Experience designing and drafting cable drawings for production use. - Experience designing for international CE safety standards and working within product lifecycle processes. - Experience defining and managing electrical interfaces between subsystems and vendors, along with BOM selection and component lifecycle management. - Experience developing equipment with external partners and key module or component suppliers. - Legal authorization to work in the United States.
Nice to have
- Experience with embedded systems, PLCs, FPGAs, or microcontrollers. - Experience working with third-party safety regulators.
Skills: industrial control panel, PCB design, lithography, optical inspection, EMC
This role has been open 89 days — slightly above the 81-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Lithography Systems
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Open roles in category
51
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Median days open
81 d
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Median salary
$135k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Onto Innovation | All employers we track in this specialty (51 roles · 13 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 51 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 108 | 9979 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 89 d | 81 d (+8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $135k |
Skills observed across this category: industrial control panel, PCB design, lithography, optical inspection, EMC
Who's hiring in this category
- ASML · 26 open roles · median 54 d
- Applied Materials · 4 open roles · median 108 d
- GlobalFoundries · 4 open roles · median 118 d
- Micron Technology · 4 open roles · median 161 d
- Onto Innovation (this employer) · 3 open roles · median 88 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 2 open roles · median 116 d
How we counted: 51 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Lithography Systems) roles from 13 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.