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Our laser-based technology eliminates waste, improves material cost and performance, and drives advancements in high-growth markets like automotive, telecommunications, and power electronics. Founded in 2014 at Stanford University, Halo secured significant funding in 2024 and is poised for rapid growth, engaging strategic customers and preparing for volume manufacturing.\nThe Opportunity\nAs a Staff Systems Engineer at Halo Industries, you will play a crucial role in the development, integration, and lifecycle management of our next-generation semiconductor manufacturing technology with opportunities to work with advanced optical and laser systems. Working at the intersection of mechanical design, software automation, and process engineering, you will apply your expertise in system design to advance groundbreaking technology from R&D through release. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to design, integrate, troubleshoot, and optimize complex systems; ensure operational excellence, performance, and reliability; drive cycle-time and production improvements; and manage the technical documentation and hardware changes. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise, attention to detail, proactive ownership, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary initiatives.\nRole and Responsibilities\nSystem requirements and specifications:\nTranslate customer, process, performance, safety, and business needs into clear system and subsystem requirements, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria. Maintain traceability through design, integration, verification, and validation. \nDevelop and maintain system architectures, theories of operation, functional breakdowns, and interface definitions. Ensure hardware, software, firmware, controls, and process subsystems operate together to meet product requirements.\nDefine intended tool behavior, operating sequences, control requirements, and error-recovery strategies.\nTranslate program requirements into work breakdown structures (WBS) with executable tasks.\nDrive design review and coordinate feedback throughout the design phases and maintain change control management. Track and document design changes.\nTechnical analysis and tradeoffs:\nConduct error budgeting, architecture tradeoff analysis, gap analyses, and engineering assessments to balance performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, cost, and schedule. Analyze wafer flow, throughput, productivity, and facility requirements.\nDetermine whether an issue requires a software correction, hardware repair, process change, calibration adjustment, or requirements update.\n Review test plans, experimental methods, and qualification strategies. Analyze and characterize subsystem behavior, and use statistical analysis to evaluate results. \nSystems engineering planning:\nDefine technical scope, engineering deliverables, review milestones, and verification strategies. Develop and maintain a Technical Plan to guide execution and assess technical maturity.\nInvestigate requests, production issues, and improvement opportunities by consulting operators, process engineers, software engineers, automation teams, and other stakeholders.\nLead system-level technical decisions within approved requirements. Coordinate priorities and trade-offs with management and competence leads to obtain designated approvals for changes affecting safety, reliability, scope, cost, schedule, customer commitments, or accepted risk. \nSystem Improvement:\nContinuous improvement (CIP) initiatives to reduce cycle time and optimize performance.\nConvert improvement opportunities into detailed requirements and Jira tasks.\n Facilitate the Engineering Change (EC) process, ensuring that documentation, CAD models, and electrical updates are accurate and communicated to stakeholders. Review ECRs to discuss needs and risks to the CCB.\nValidate implemented changes and quantify performance improvements.\n Explore CIP opportunities including component selection and cost optimization.\nRisk Management:\nCoordinate technical risk assessments, FMEA, FACA, and safety interlock definitions. Evaluate operating limits, material compatibility, contamination risks, and subsystem interactions with relevant specialists.\nAdd preventative checks, diagnostics, or controls where needed to reduce recurrence.\nEvaluate how system components affect each other; identify gaps, and cross-competence risks.\n Partner with multidisciplinary engineering teams to identify, quantify, and close performance gaps throughout the product development lifecycle.\nTechnical Documentation & Requirements:\nDrive critical technical documentation, including SW and system requirements, device lists, interconnect diagrams, IO lists, test reports, functional flow, recovery guide, CAD, manuals and BOMs.\nDocumentation of vendor design and requirements.\nTranslate system requirements and improvement opportunities into clear, executable Jira tasks for software, hardware, and controls teams.\nMaintain traceability between field observations, requirements, engineering tasks, implementation, and validation.\nDocument and track issues that come up during development and validation. \nTrack configuration differences across different tool revision and deployment locations.\nTechnical Leadership:\nInvestigate and record system failures, performance variation, and customer escalations. Use first-principles analysis, diagnostic measurements, log analysis, and structured root-cause methods to resolve issues for future improvements.\nProvide high level training to support the onboarding process. \nRequirements\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Optics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field, with 7+ years of experience; or master’s degree with 5+ years; or a PhD with 3+ years; or equivalent practical experience.\nExperience defining equipment requirements and specifications, CIPs, priorities management, technical analysis, and field deployment.\nExperience planning systems engineering activities, maintaining technical documentation, and coordinating design reviews and requirements traceability.\nStrong system-level understanding of interactions among mechanical hardware, electrical controls, software, process requirements, and operator workflows.\nExperience using data driven analysis on system failures, performance variation, and customer escalations. \nExperience writing technical requirements, sequence descriptions, and equipment documentation.\n Preferred Qualifications:\nOptics and laser design or process experience.\nExperience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Smartsheet) and version control/documentation management (e.g. Arena).\nProficiency to translate ambiguous needs into structured requirements, system architectures, interface definitions, and executable plans\nFamiliarity with the SEMI standard. Experience leading safety audits.\nStrong technical communication, cross-functional collaboration, and organizational skills, with the ability to influence decisions and alignments.\nAbility to read mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, P&IDs, equipment specifications, and component data sheets. \nBenefits\nHealth Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)\nRetirement Plan (401k, IRA)\nPaid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)\nLife Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)\nFamily Leave (Maternity, Paternity)\nFree Food & Snacks\nStock Option Plan\nAnnual Bonus Plan eligible\nShort Term & Long Term Disability\nBase Salary: $190,000 - $215,000\nAdditional Information\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all team members feel valued and supported. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented communities in STEM. 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