About the Role
Develop and manage product requirements for advanced semiconductor inspection and metrology optical systems. This role translates customer specifications and internal performance targets into clear, testable system and subsystem requirements, ensuring proper flow-down across optical, mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing disciplines in fast-paced commercial 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.
- Develop and maintain subsystem and component-level requirements for optics, illumination, mechanics, electronics, software, and algorithms.
- Ensure requirements are quantitative, unambiguous, and verifiable.
- Ensure requirements are 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.
- Act as the technical interface between optical, mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing engineers.
- Act as the technical interface between program management and operations.
- Support customer technical reviews and requirement clarifications.
- Contribute to proposal development and technical responses.
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.
- Demonstrated experience with system architecture and interface definition.
- Demonstrated experience with verification and validation planning.
- Working knowledge of optical inspection or imaging systems.
- Experience working directly from customer-provided specifications.
- Ability to comply with applicable export control regulations, including U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
- Eligibility to access controlled technology as required by law.
Skills
- Systems Engineering
- Optical Engineering
- Physics
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Requirements development
- Flow-down
- System architecture
- Interface definition
- Verification and validation planning
- Optical inspection systems
- Imaging systems
- Customer-provided specifications
- Semiconductor inspection
- Metrology
- Lithography systems
- Requirements management tools
- SEMI standards
- High-volume manufacturing environments
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience in systems engineering for complex electro-optical products
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- Master’s degree in a related engineering discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $115,047.00 - $158,190.00
Benefits
- Company-wide bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- 100% company-paid pension benefit
- Matching contributions to 401(k) savings plan
- Medical, dental, vision
- Paid parental leave
- Family building support
- Fitness
- Company-paid life insurance
- Disability
- Disease management programs
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
About the Company
- Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science.
- Technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible.
- The Specialty Materials segment manufactures products that provide more than 150 material formulations for glass, glass ceramics and fluoride crystals to meet demand for unique customer needs.
- This segment operates in a wide variety of commercial and industrial markets that include display optics and components, semiconductor optics components, aerospace and defense, astronomy, ophthalmic products, telecommunications components and cover glass that is optimized for portable display devices.
Equal Opportunity
- Prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
- Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws.
- Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment.
- To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at accommodations@corning.com.
