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About the Role
As a Principal Systems Engineer on the WaferSense team, you will provide technical leadership for the development and lifecycle support of a product line used by semiconductor manufacturers and equipment OEMs worldwide. You will help shape system architecture, guide development, and connect technical contributions across disciplines to deliver innovative, high-performance products.
Responsibilities
- Shape system architecture and design decisions in collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Lead cross-team definition of system requirements, performance targets, and subsystem interfaces.
- Guide cross-functional development, ensuring engineering contributions integrate into a complete, effective product.
- Coordinate technical priorities, dependencies, resources, and milestones with functional and project leaders.
- Lead technical reviews and trade studies, balancing performance, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and risk.
- Contribute hands-on to design, prototyping, experiments, and troubleshooting as needed.
- Guide system integration, testing, and validation across subsystems.
- Collaborate on the development of calibration methods, fixture architecture, and production processes.
- Lead complex investigations using engineering analysis and experimental evidence to resolve product and production issues.
- Lead technical risk assessments and coordinate mitigation and verification of corrective actions.
- Translate customer and business needs into technical requirements and development priorities with relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure documentation captures consistent requirements, interfaces, decisions, and validation results across teams.
- Mentor engineers and share technical knowledge to strengthen team capability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of R&D and product development experience, with demonstrated success developing complex systems and leading cross-functional technical efforts.
- Experience making substantial technical contributions through design, prototyping, integration, and validation.
- Strong technical depth in a relevant field and the ability to understand interactions across a complete system.
- Demonstrated ability to guide cross-functional technical work, build alignment on design decisions, and drive execution.
- Experience evaluating system-level trade-offs and resolving complex design or integration problems.
- Ability to structure investigations, design effective experiments, interpret data, and verify engineering solutions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to build agreement and explain technical recommendations clearly.
Skills
- Precision products development
- Sensors development
- Metrology systems development
- Scientific instruments development
- Semiconductor equipment development
- Multidisciplinary development guidance
- Calibration
- Measurement systems
- Test fixtures
- Manufacturing-process development
- Complex manufacturing issue resolution
- Complex field-performance issue resolution
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of R&D and product development experience
- Principal level
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $125,000 to $170,000 annually
- Bonus target is 3%
Benefits
- Medical
- Rx
- Vision
- Dental
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401k
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- 16 hours paid time for volunteer services
- Matching Gifts Program
About the Company
- Nordson Test & Inspection is a global leader in X-Ray & Test Systems and Optical Sensors and Metrology.
- We manufacture world-class metrology equipment and inspection systems to ensure electronic products are built to meet the highest standards.
- We use X-ray inspection, acoustic imaging, and optical inspection technologies to create testing systems that enable the identification of even the smallest defects at high resolution.
- We bring innovative ideas to life.
- We are a global team that works to create machines and systems that improve the manufacturing process for a wide range of industries, including electronics, aerospace, automotive, energy, lighting, and medical.
- We offer a supportive culture in a growing and dynamic work environment.
- We offer hourly and salary positions in production, maintenance, customer service, quality, engineering, and more.
- We actively invest in our teams to help you build your skillsets and advance your career.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we are looking for candidates who share that same commitment.