About this role
<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Requisition Number: 74319</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>The company built on breakthroughs. <br>Join us. </strong> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">How do we do this? With our people. They break through limitations and expectations – not once in a career, but every day. They help move our company, and the world, forward. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Come break through with us. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Corning’s businesses are ever-evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets. We are changing the world with: </span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences </span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation </span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions</span></li> </ul><p> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Purpose of Position</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">The Controls & Hardware Supervisor provides technical and supervisory leadership for the development of measurement, control, and automation systems used to evaluate performance, optimize quality, and ensure compliance of complex optical systems. This role works with multidisciplinary engineering teams to specify, develop, build, and maintain complex test systems for use in both engineering and production environments, while supervising and mentoring a team of engineers and technicians.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Day to Day Responsibilities</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Provide technical leadership for the architecture and development of metrology, controls, hardware, and software systems supporting optical system test and measurement.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Supervise, mentor, and provide day-to-day guidance to a team of approximately 6–8 engineers and technicians, including task assignments, technical oversight, and performance feedback.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Define metrology and controls system architectures for test benches to enable comprehensive assessment of optical system performance.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Develop and maintain error budgets and use them to refine test bench architectures to ensure robust and repeatable measurements.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Specify, design, assemble, test, and document automated test and control systems, including motors, detectors, cameras, data acquisition, timing circuitry, wiring, and cable assemblies for prototype and production environments.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Develop and maintain software applications to automate test execution, data acquisition, analysis, and data storage in engineering and production settings.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Coordinate technical activities with optical design, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, quality, and program management teams.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Support test system deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment in both laboratory and cleanroom environments.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Serve as a technical contributor on complex projects, maintaining approximately 50% hands on involvement alongside supervisory responsibilities.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Required Qualifications</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">5+ years of industrial or combined industrial and graduate level research experience.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience working on complex, multi‑disciplinary engineering projects with challenging technical requirements and schedule constraints.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Firm foundation in mathematical analysis, including statistics and trigonometry.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Strong understanding of error sources, error budgeting, and mitigation techniques.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Background in electronics, including analog and digital circuits, with hands on troubleshooting experience using tools such as multimeters and oscilloscopes.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Familiarity with optical elements, imaging systems, and illumination systems.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Familiarity with developing software using interpreted or scripted languages such as Python or MATLAB.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Demonstrated experience leading small teams, supervising technical staff, or mentoring engineers.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Desired Qualifications</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience developing precision measurement systems, including architecture definition, error budgeting, and calibration.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Programming experience in C, C++, or C#.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with National Instruments Lab Windows or LabVIEW environments.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with computer vision systems and libraries (e.g., OpenCV).</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Familiarity with control loops, PID tuning, and process automation.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Travel Requirements</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Occasional travel may be required to support program needs, integration activities, or coordination with other company sites.</span></p><p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>This position does not support immigration sponsorship. </strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">The range for this position is $126,041.00 - $173,307.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>A job that shapes a life. </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Corning offers you the total package. </strong></span></p> <p> </p> <div> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial aspirations, and career from day one.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well. When Corning wins, we all win.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, we provide a 100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions that grow throughout your career. Combined with matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, Corning’s total contributions to your retirement accounts can reach between 7% and 12% of your pay, depending on your age and years of service.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family. </span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Getting paid for our work is important, but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That’s why Corning offers a recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make exceptional contributions. </span></li> </ul> </div> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment. To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Corning%20Accommodations">[email protected]</a>.</span></p>