About Us

SirenOpt® provides metrology and manufacturing intelligence solutions that accelerate sustainable and smart manufacturing of advanced coatings, thin films and nano-scale materials, with demonstrated use cases across battery, semiconductor, aerospace, electronics and many other industries. Micro- or nano-scale materials enable many high-growth industries, including lithium, sodium and solid-state batteries, solar cells, carbon sequestration and conversion technologies, optical devices, quantum devices, displays, adhesives, medical implants, semiconductors, packaging materials, and many others.

SirenOpt is pioneering a paradigm shift in advanced materials characterization by leveraging cold atmospheric plasma, machine learning and predictive analytics to non-destructively create uniquely distinctive, multifaceted material fingerprints in real-time. SirenOpt transforms current measurement blind spots into rich multi-layered material insights, which enable intelligent performance-centric decision-making. SirenOpt thus accelerates R&D and process optimization, enhances product performance, and delivers higher production quality to maximize value in both standalone (benchtop) and integrated (in-line) applications.

Job Description

We are seeking a Metrology Applications Specialist to join our Applications Engineering Team. The Applications Engineering team leads technical interactions with our customers, prospects and stakeholders, including in-house demonstration studies, and the delivery and installation of SirenOpt’s PlasmaSens products at customer sites. The AE team also provides consultation, training and support services to those customers.

If you are a driven and skilled application specialist looking to make a significant impact in advanced manufacturing and the green energy transition, we encourage you to apply. We believe that the most innovative teams are inclusive and celebrate all forms of diversity. We highly encourage candidates from unrepresented groups to apply.

In this role you will:

• Work closely with customers, prospects and collaborators to understand their material and product metrology requirements, and use that understanding to define and execute on demonstration studies and proof-of-concept efforts
• Report and discuss demo study results with customers, and utilize their feedback to provide direction on next steps both internally and externally
• Demonstrate SirenOpt’s solutions and technology to customers and stakeholders during customer visits, as well as at both in-person and virtual events and conferences
• Provide feedback to the SirenOpt product and engineering teams on user experience in order to improve customer satisfaction.
• Identify new applications, performance capabilities, product features and value to further enhance SirenOpt product and market opportunities
• Work closely with your colleagues in the Applications Engineering team to create & improve new methodologies and process to optimize both internal and external platform performance
• Perform concept and feasibility, and qualification analyses of new metrology approaches
• Document platform/product best practices and procedures for external stakeholders and colleagues

You have:

• B.S. or a graduate degree in a relevant engineering or technical discipline, including chemical engineering, materials science, chemistry, physics, or a related discipline
• One to two years' work experience related to manufacturing, metrology, characterization and/or materials development, preferably with films and/or their precursor materials
• Previous experience working with hardware, software and/or analytics products that target manufacturing sectors
• Solid understanding of machine learning and data science, especially as it relates to industrial applications for ML, and experience with data analysis tools (eg Matlab) and/or languages (eg Python)
• Strong people skills, and a demonstrated ability to work closely with both internal and external stakeholders to deliver results
• Travel to global customer sites, conferences and trade shows will be required, so possession of a valid passport and the willingness to use it will be required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new challenges and excited to work in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary environment
• The ideal candidate will learn new concepts quickly and take pride in the quality of their work.
• Curiosity, a self-starting attitude and a desire to see your work positively impact manufacturing across industries and across the globe

Nice to have:

• Prior work or research experience in one or more of the key industrial markets that SirenOpt addresses, including batteries, semiconductors, power generation, energy or electronics
• Fluency in one or more key stakeholder languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German or French

Compensation and Logistics:

• Salary Range: $65,000 - $120,000 (plus equity)
• Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, and 401k matching
• Time off: 20 days of PTO per year, plus approximately 15 paid US holidays per year
• Location: Onsite work is required at our offices in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Occasional work-from-home days can be arranged with manager approval