Sr. Systems Engineer

Corning • Village of Fairport, NY

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About The Position

We are seeking a Systems Engineer to develop and manage product requirements for advanced semiconductor inspection and metrology optical systems. This role is responsible for translating customer specifications and internal performance targets into clear, testable system and subsystem requirements, and ensuring proper flow-down across optical, mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing disciplines. The ideal candidate has experience working in fast-paced commercial environments, balancing aggressive performance, cost, and schedule constraints while maintaining rigorous requirements traceability and verification.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in systems engineering for complex electro-optical products
• Demonstrated experience with: Requirements development and flow-down
• System architecture and interface definition
• Verification and validation planning
• Working knowledge of optical inspection or imaging systems
• Experience working directly from customer-provided specifications

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a related engineering discipline
• Experience with semiconductor inspection, metrology, or lithography systems
• Familiarity with requirements management tools
• Understanding of SEMI standards and high-volume manufacturing environments

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer specifications, tool requirements, and statements of work to derive complete and verifiable system requirements
• Develop and maintain: System-level performance and functional requirements
• Subsystem and component-level requirements for optics, illumination, mechanics, electronics, software, and algorithms
• Ensure requirements are Quantitative, unambiguous, and verifiable
• Aligned with customer acceptance criteria and internal development standards
• Define and maintain system architecture and interfaces across multidisciplinary teams
• Allocate performance budgets (optical, thermal, mechanical stability, timing, reliability)
• Lead technical trade studies to support architecture and design decisions
• Support system-level modeling, error budgets, and margin analysis
• Identify and mitigate technical risks related to performance, manufacturability, and cost
• Define verification and validation (V&V) plans aligned with customer acceptance tests
• Ensure requirements traceability to verification methods (analysis, inspection, test)
• Support integration, system bring-up, and factory acceptance testing
• Work closely with manufacturing and quality teams to ensure requirements are producible and testable at volume
• Act as the technical interface between: Customers and field engineering teams, Optical, mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing engineer, Program management and operations.
• Support customer technical reviews and requirement clarifications
• Contribute to proposal development and technical responses

Benefits

• Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives
• 100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions
• Matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan
• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Family building support
• Fitness programs
• Company-paid life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Disease management programs
• Paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Recognition program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior