Director of Engineering

Job Summary

Lead global engineering across all OSM sites, driving accelerated innovation to meet market demands, particularly in semiconductor and optical domains. Oversee R&D across Optical, Sensors & Acoustic, and AI/ML, ensuring rapid, high-quality product development and delivery. Align engineering strategy with business priorities, applying strong business acumen to balance speed, cost, and impact. Define long‑term technical, customer, and industrial trends, aligning engineering efforts accordingly.

Build, mentor, and retain top engineering talent through structured development, training, and career progression. Promote a high‑performance culture that is innovative, accountable, and collaborative.

• Accelerate Innovation & Execution:
  Drive faster development cycles from concept to launch, ensuring on‑time, on‑budget, and on‑spec delivery while aligning roadmaps with market trends and customer needs.
• Engineering Leadership & Execution:
  Manage a large, global engineering organization through managers and supervisors, ensuring strong alignment, communication, and cross‑functional collaboration. Oversee complex, multidisciplinary development programs, ensuring delivery on schedule, within budget, and to performance targets.
• Technical Strategy & Roadmaps:
  Develop and execute integrated technology roadmaps across semiconductor, optical, and acoustic sensing domains aligned with market trends and customer requirements. Ensure alignment between R&D investments and business priorities, driving ROI‑focused innovation.
• Domain Expertise (Acoustic & Optical):
  Leverage deep experience in acoustic and optical systems to guide architecture decisions, technology selection, and product differentiation, ensuring engineering solutions meet the precision, reliability, and scalability demands of advanced inspection and test applications.
• Talent Development:
  Build and develop high‑performing teams through coaching, training, and career progression. Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Process Excellence:
  Establish and continuously improve engineering processes from concept through commercial launch, aligned with the NBS Next Product Innovation Playbook. Implement best‑in‑class tools, methodologies, and governance to improve development efficiency, quality, and scalability.

• Extensive experience leading large, multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Advanced degree (MS or PhD preferred) in physics, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum eight years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Proven track record delivering complex system development programs at scale.
• Strong understanding of business and management principles, including strategic planning, resource allocation, organizational design, leadership, and operational execution.
• Industry experience in electronics manufacturing equipment.
• Experience with optics or acoustic imaging systems.
• Familiarity with phase‑gate engineering project management methodologies.

• Strong strategic leadership with the ability to think creatively, solve complex problems, and align engineering execution with business goals.

• Office environment.
• Travel required:
  
  None.

Base Salary Range: $187,000 to $265,000 annually, with a 20% bonus target. Benefits include Medical, Rx, Vision, Dental, and Health Savings Account (HSA), retirement and security benefits including 401(k) and life insurance. Paid Time Off, paid holidays, and 16 hours paid volunteer time per calendar year are also provided. Matching Gifts Program is available.