# Lead AI Engineer at Onto Innovation

- Company: Onto Innovation
- What the company does: Onto Innovation is a leader in semiconductor manufacturing software & solutions that solve the most difficult yield, device performance, quality, & reliability issues.
- Company website: https://ontoinnovation.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-16
- Apply by: 2026-11-30
- Apply: https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/ONTO_Careers/job/Hillsboro-OR/Lead-AI-Engineer_R-6598?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/onto-innovation-lead-ai-engineer/

## About the role

Onto Innovation designs and manufactures the inspection and metrology tools that the world’s leading chipmakers rely on. We believe AI will be a key enabler of faster, more reliable measurement and decision-making in semiconductor manufacturing. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Set the vision and own the architecture. Define the AI strategy and reference architecture for metrology, choose what to build and what to buy, and keep the roadmap tied to the problems customers actually have
- Build it yourself. Write, test, and ship production code — prototypes, agent workflows, evaluation tooling, and the systems that run them — and set the standard by example
- Design agent workflows for the metrology lifecycle — guided recipe and model setup, qualification runs, tool matching, and root-cause triage when a measurement drifts
- Give agents real tools. Connect them to our simulators, solvers, and tool data so the agent orchestrates and the physics computes
- Ground agents in fab knowledge: retrieval manuals, recipes, service tickets, and historical measurement outcomes, with provenance on every answer
- Design for trust. Human-in-the-loop checkpoints, confidence and uncertainty carried through every step, full audit trails, and refusal when the evidence is thin — a number without an error bar is not a measurement


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