New Product Innovation Engineer – Capacitors & Materials

KEMET Electronics Corporation; Simpsonville (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative culture

Inclusive culture

Career growth

Work-life balance

Benefits package

Global impact

Job summary

KEMET Electronics Corporation, part of the YAGEO Group, is seeking a New Product Development Engineer to drive product and process development at the Simpsonville Innovation Center for tantalum polymer capacitors. You’ll bridge research, engineering, and manufacturing to move concepts from lab to pilot to production.

Collaborating with R&D, engineering, operations, quality, and manufacturing teams, you’ll lead experiments, validate new materials, and help scale up processes while advancing

Qualifications

• Lead technical development projects from concept through implementation.
• Plan, design, and execute experiments to evaluate new products, materials, and processes.
• Analyze data, draw technical conclusions, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Explore and evaluate emerging technologies that enable next‑generation capacitor and materials solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, scientists, technicians, machinists, and manufacturing teams to develop innovative products and processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical development projects from concept through implementation.
• Design, plan, and execute experiments to evaluate new products, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Analyze data, draw technical conclusions, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Explore and evaluate emerging technologies that enable next‑generation capacitor and materials solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, scientists, technicians, machinists, and manufacturing teams to develop innovative products and processes.
• Work with a dedicated lab facility, pilot manufacturing equipment, and automation systems with support from advanced analytical groups and multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Develop and optimize testing methods, process controls, and performance evaluation techniques.
• Support scale‑up activities from laboratory and pilot operations to full manufacturing implementation.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of existing products, processes, and manufacturing capabilities.

Skills

Project leadership

Experiment design

Data analysis

Emerging technologies

Cross-functional collaboration

Lab operations

Testing methods

Process optimization

Job description

KEMET Electronics Corporation, part of the YAGEO Group, is seeking a New Product Development Engineer to drive product and process development at the Simpsonville Innovation Center for tantalum polymer capacitors. You’ll bridge research, engineering, and manufacturing to move concepts from lab to pilot to production.

Collaborating with R&D, engineering, operations, quality, and manufacturing teams, you’ll lead experiments, validate new materials, and help scale up processes while advancing