Metrology Applications Engineer

Location: On-site in San Leandro, California, United States; travel up to approximately 25% for customer sites, installations, and conferences.

Base pay: $100,000–$160,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global develops a manufacturing intelligence platform that uses cold atmospheric plasma, physics-informed machine learning, and predictive analytics to characterize micro- and nano-materials during production.

What you will do

• Work with customers, prospects, and collaborators to define metrology requirements and plan demonstration studies and proof-of-concept projects.
• Design, run, and analyze experiments in company laboratories and at customer facilities, including test planning, data collection, and interpretation.
• Present findings and recommendations to customer engineers, managers, and executives.
• Install, commission, troubleshoot, and optimize PlasmaSens systems at customer sites.
• Provide field and customer feedback to product and engineering teams to influence roadmap and usability improvements.
• Develop applications, calibration procedures, metrology workflows, and customer documentation such as application notes and standard operating procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in materials science, chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, or a related technical discipline; or a Ph.D. in a relevant field.
• For bachelor’s or master’s candidates, 1–2 years of industry experience in manufacturing, metrology, materials characterization, or materials development; Ph.D. candidates should have related research or industry experience.
• Experience using hardware and software in industrial or manufacturing settings, including laboratory instrumentation, in-line sensors, or analytics tools.
• Familiarity with data analysis, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, statistical process control, Gauge R&R, basic modeling, and trend analysis; experience with JMP, MATLAB, and/or Python.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to work on-site and travel up to approximately 25% for customer work, installations, and conferences.

Nice to have

• Experience in batteries, aerospace, power generation, semiconductors, energy, or electronics.
• Exposure to plasma processing, high-temperature materials, or in-situ/on-line metrology systems.
• Fluency in Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, German, or French.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment with priorities shaped by customer needs.
• Health, dental, and vision plans provided.
• 401(k) matching provided.
• 20 days of paid time off per year plus approximately 15 paid US holidays.
• Equity and salary compensation depend on experience.