Lead Solution-Processed Coatings Engineer (Perovskite)

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Education Support Program

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a senior role in Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering to lead solution-processed deposition development for perovskite absorbers and related materials. You will formulate precursors, optimize coating processes, and design equipment for inert atmosphere and controlled drying to enable scalable manufacturing.

Responsibilities include DOE campaigns to map process-structure-property relationships, establishing process windows and inline QC metrics, and guiding scale-up

Qualifications

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in solution-processed thin-film deposition for photovoltaic, OLED, or printed electronics applications.
• Demonstrated experience formulating functional precursors (perovskite, metal oxide, organic semiconductor, or nanoparticle).
• Strong understanding of film formation mechanisms from solution: solvent evaporation, nucleation and growth, anti-solvent crystallization.
• Hands-on experience with rheology characterization and its relationship to coating quality.
• Track record of scaling solution-processed films from lab to pilot or production scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize solution-based deposition processes for perovskite absorber layers and charge transport materials
• Formulate and characterize precursors: solvent systems, additive engineering, shelf-life stability
• Design and commission coating equipment for perovskite-specific requirements (inert atmosphere, substrate heating, meniscus control, drying zones)
• Develop drying and annealing protocols (thermal, vacuum-assisted, gas quenching, anti-solvent) that control nucleation, grain growth, and crystallographic orientation
• Map process-structure-property relationships through systematic DOE campaigns correlating coating parameters with film morphology and device performance
• Establish scalable coating processes with defined process windows, uniformity specifications, and in-line quality metrics
• Develop defect classification and root-cause analysis methods for coating defects (pinholes, dewetting, thickness non-uniformity)
• Define scale-up pathway from lab-scale to pilot-scale continuous coating

Skills

Solution-processed deposition

Thin-film deposition

Rheology characterization

Process-structure DOE

Scale-up coating

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or related field

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or Chemistry

Tools

In-line metrology

Roll-to-roll coating

Optical/thermal imaging

Spectroscopic methods

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a senior role in Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering to lead solution-processed deposition development for perovskite absorbers and related materials. You will formulate precursors, optimize coating processes, and design equipment for inert atmosphere and controlled drying to enable scalable manufacturing.

Responsibilities include DOE campaigns to map process-structure-property relationships, establishing process windows and inline QC metrics, and guiding scale-up