Sr. Systems Engineer

Requisition Number: 74112

 

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Corning’s businesses are ever-evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets. We are changing the world with: 

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 
• Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

 

Position Summary:

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.

 

Key Responsibilities Requirements:

 

 Development & Flow-Down:

• 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 

 

System Architecture & Technical Execution:

• 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 

 

Verification, Validation & Manufacturing Support:

• 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 

 

Cross-Functional & Customer Interaction:

• 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
• Contribut