Hydrometallurgical Engineer - Pilot-Scale Innovation

VoltForce; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

VoltForce is seeking a Hydrometallurgical Engineer for an early-stage critical-minerals technology company. You will help rethink bench-scale chemistries moving from bench-scale to pilot scale, collaborating with machine learning, process modeling, and lab automation alongside the commercial team to build a highly automated platform for hydrometallurgical development.

This founding-team seat on a lean, interdisciplinary team welcomes experience across multiple disciplines and requires the

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Chemistry, or related discipline.
• 2+ years of industrial hydrometallurgical, separations, or process development experience.
• Experience independently designing, executing, and documenting bench-scale experimental campaigns.
• Understanding of core hydrometallurgical unit operations: leaching, solid–liquid separation, solvent extraction, precipitation.
• Ability to perform process calculations, analyze experimental data, and draw sound technical conclusions.
• Comfort working across laboratory, process engineering, analytical, and customer-facing responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and analyze bench- and pilot-scale solvent extraction experiments that guide process development and scale-up.
• Help set technical strategy for moving programs from vial-scale screening through pilot testing, including campaign priorities and scale-up criteria.
• Work with customers and commercial teams to define technical needs, run campaigns on customer feedstocks, present results, and scope subsequent phases.
• Inform technical trade-off studies, including scoping-level capital and operating cost estimates.

Skills

Hydrometallurgical experience

Bench-scale campaign design

Data analysis

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Process calculations

Customer-facing communication

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Chemical/Metallurgical/Chemistry

Tools

METSIM

SysCAD

HSC Chemistry

Aspen Plus

ICP-OES/ICP-MS workflows

Job description

VoltForce is seeking a Hydrometallurgical Engineer for an early-stage critical-minerals technology company. You will help rethink bench-scale chemistries moving from bench-scale to pilot scale, collaborating with machine learning, process modeling, and lab automation alongside the commercial team to build a highly automated platform for hydrometallurgical development.

This founding-team seat on a lean, interdisciplinary team welcomes experience across multiple disciplines and requires the