About this role
About SirenOpt
SirenOpt helps manufacturers make better, safer, and more reliable micro- and nano-materials. These materials are the building blocks of critical sectors of the global economy such as batteries, computer chips, aircraft components, and power systems. But, surging material demand and growing complexity are pushing production to unprecedented scales and speeds, leaving manufacturers effectively flying blind. Small, undetected variations during production lead to wastage, lower performance, higher costs, and safety risks.
SirenOpt is changing this. Our manufacturing intelligence platform scans materials, revealing critical internal information without damaging them. Using a novel combination of cold atmospheric plasma, physics-informed machine learning, and predictive analytics, SirenOpt creates unique, real-time fingerprints that capture material signals no other method can access. These insights give manufacturers unprecedented visibility into how materials behave as they are made.
We turn hidden data into actionable intelligence to help manufacturers reduce variability and thus increase yield and performance. The technology can be deployed as a standalone tool or integrated directly into factory production lines. SirenOpt is currently deploying early versions of its platform with some of the largest industrial manufacturers in the world across North America, Europe, and Asia. Our first commercial product will be released in 2026.
Job Description
We are seeking a Metrology Applications Specialist to join our Applied Metrology Team. The Applied Metrology 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 AM 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 Applied Metrology 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
Benefits
- Equity and Salary compensation depends on experience
- Health, Dental, Vision plans provided
- 401k matching provided
- Time off: 20 days of PTO per year, plus approximately 15 paid US holidays per year
Other facts
About SirenOpt
SirenOpt helps manufacturers make better, safer, and more reliable micro- and nano-materials. These materials are the building blocks of critical sectors of the global economy such as batteries, computer chips, , aircraft components, and power systems. Surging material demand and growing complexity are pushing production to unprecedented scales and speeds, leaving manufacturers effectively flying blind. Small, undetected variations during production lead to wastage, lower performance, higher costs, and safety risks.
SirenOpt is changing this. Our manufacturing intelligence platform scans materials, revealing critical internal information without damaging them. Using a novel combination of cold atmospheric plasma, physics-informed machine learning, and predictive analytics, SirenOpt creates unique, real-time fingerprints that capture material signals no other method can access. These insights give manufacturers unprecedented visibility into how materials behave as they are made.
We turn hidden data into actionable intelligence to help manufacturers reduce variability and thus increase yield and performance. The technology can be deployed as a standalone tool or integrated directly into factory production lines.
SirenOpt is currently deploying early versions of its platform with some of the largest industrial manufacturers in the world across North America, Europe, and Asia. Our first commercial product will be released in 2026.
SirenOpt was founded in 2022 as a spin-out from the UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Department. SirenOpt is supported by the UC Berkeley Skydeck, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Cyclotron Road and Activate science-driven startup accelerator programs. SirenOpt is also supported by a BRIDGE Grant from the California Energy Commission.
For employment opportunities please visit our careers page: https://www.sirenopt.com/careers
What you'll do
- The Metrology Applications Specialist will work closely with customers to understand their metrology requirements and execute demonstration studies. They will also provide feedback to improve customer satisfaction and identify new applications for SirenOpt's products.
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