Senior Program Manager - Budd Lake-NJ, United States
$102,400 - $153,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 3 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role works with the Director of Product Management to translate product priorities into cross-functional plans, owners, timelines, and follow-through, ensuring the full program is coordinated across technical, operational, and business functions.
What you'll do
- Keep risk, cost, schedule, readiness, and open commitments visible.
- Identify risks early and coordinate mitigation with clear owners.
- Review accountability, clarify priorities, and advance critical deliverables.
- Track schedules and help drive recovery when commitments slip.
- Monitor COGS, cost drivers, and meaningful cost changes.
- Coordinate readiness for milestones, releases, transitions, deployments, and qualifications.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Materials Science, Systems Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
- 10+ years in semiconductor capital equipment, manufacturing, metrology, inspection, process control, systems engineering, NPI, or product lifecycle management.
- Experience leading large cross-functional technical initiatives.
- Experience managing product or program risk, cost, and schedule.
- Strong process discipline and attention to detail.
- Technical breadth across software, hardware, systems, applications, manufacturing, quality, service, and supply chain.
Nice to have
- Experience with optical metrology, inspection, APC, yield management, or semiconductor process equipment.
- Experience supporting foundry, logic, memory, or advanced packaging customers.
- Experience with NPI, product lifecycle, release, qualification, manufacturing readiness, or field deployment.
- Experience building practical operating procedures, governance, or execution frameworks.
- Formal leadership experience with strong cross-functional execution leadership.
Skills: product priorities, cross functional plans, risk, cost, schedule, semiconductor capital equipment, NPI
This role has been open 43 days — below the 49-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
372
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Median days open
49 d
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Median salary
$148k
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| Metric | Onto Innovation | All employers we track in this specialty (372 roles · 41 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 372 |
| Median days open | 33 d | 49 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $148k |
Skills observed across this category: product priorities, cross functional plans, risk, cost, schedule, semiconductor capital equipment, NPI
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 105 open roles · median 38 d
- Lam Research · 71 open roles · median 35 d
- Micron Technology · 39 open roles · median 126 d
- ASML · 22 open roles · median 59 d
- Teradyne · 18 open roles · median 29 d
- KLA Corporation · 13 open roles · median 92 d
How we counted: 372 open Technical Program Management (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 41 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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. Figures refresh nightly.