Systems Engineer

Staff Systems Engineer

About Siren Opt

Siren Opt 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.

Siren Opt 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, Siren Opt 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. Siren Opt 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.

We are seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to define, integrate, and validate Siren Opt’s plasma‑based sensing platform for deployment into advanced manufacturing environments. As an early‑stage member of the Siren Opt team, you will play a key role in shaping system‑level behavior and ensuring technical coherence across hardware, software, and experimental domains, helping establish a strong and scalable technical foundation for the company.

This role carries responsibility for system‑level technical ownership and shaping how technical work is documented across the organization. You will define and evolve the structure used to document experiments, system designs, interfaces, and technical decisions, ensuring clarity, consistency, and traceability as the company grows.

• Define and own system‑level architecture, integration, and validation of Siren Opt’s plasma‑based sensing platform
• Guide system‑level technical decisions through experimentation, data analysis, and cross‑disciplinary evaluation
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex system performance issues through structured experimentation, data analysis, and root‑cause analysis
• Establish and evolve the structure used to document experiments, system designs, interfaces, and technical decisions across the organization
• Ensure technical documentation is clear, consistent, and traceable, and tightly integrated with hands‑on engineering and validation activities
• Work closely with cross‑functional engineering teams to guide system integration and resolve non‑trivial cross‑disciplinary issues
• Incorporate customer and application feedback into system‑level design evolution and validation strategy
• Support on‑site installation, validation, and system upgrade activities at customer sites as needed
• Travel domestically and internationally approximately 10–15%

• B.S. in Engineering or Physics with 7+ years of relevant industry experience, M.S. with 5+ years, or Ph.D. with 3+ years of hands‑on systems experience
• Experience developing automated metrology, inspection, or diagnostic systems across system definition, integration, validation, deployment, and customer support
• Experience working in early‑stage or ambiguous R&D environments, using experimentation and data analysis to evaluate concepts and guide system‑level decisions
• Proficiency with tools such as Python, MATLAB, C, LabVIEW, or similar for data analysis, modeling, and evaluation of system performance
• Extensive hands‑on experience developing, integrating, and validating prototypes, subsystems, and complete systems
• Experience working across mechanical, electrical, software, and experimental domains…