Polymers & Materials Scientist | Interdisciplinary Consulting

Exponent; Seattle (WA); Vor Ort; USD 140.000 - 162.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

401(k) employer contribution

Bi-weekly bonuses

Annual bonus

Zusammenfassung

Exponent is seeking a Chemical Engineer or Materials Engineer/Scientist to join the Polymers and Chemistry Practice in Seattle. You will work on interdisciplinary teams on projects across construction materials, consumer products, energy, and infrastructure, including technical failure analyses and development testing.

The ideal candidate holds a Ph.D. or equivalent, with macromolecules expertise and analytical techniques (FTIR, DSC, TGA, SEM, Raman, UV-Vis).

Qualifikationen

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field.
• Strong theoretical and practical background in macromolecules and related chemistry/physics.
• Experience with FTIR, DSC, TGA, microscopy, and related techniques.
• Experience designing and validating novel or non-standard testing approaches.
• Proficiency with Python or another programming language and an interest in using code to automate, analyze, visualize, or otherwise simplify technical work.
• Industrial experience with chemical process design, management, and optimization considered a plus.
• Strong analytical judgment and the ability to identify the important question or observation within large amounts of information.
• Curiosity and initiative, including a willingness to learn new technical areas and develop new approaches when established methods are insufficient.
• Ability to quickly contribute to unfamiliar projects and enthusiasm for taking on a wide variety of assignments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical subjects to nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively within interdisciplinary project teams and a strong desire to contribute.
• Experience managing budgets, projects, and timelines considered a plus.
• Strong educational and publication credentials.

Aufgaben

• Conduct inspections, scientific analyses, and testing to address real-world challenges involving polymeric material performance.
• Perform root-cause analyses of failures arising during product development, process design, manufacturing, installation, and end use.
• Analyze technical data from diverse sources and develop efficient, reproducible approaches to extract useful information from large or complex datasets.
• Review and synthesize technical literature, project records, test data, process instrumentation data, and other large bodies of information to identify facts and patterns relevant to the problem at hand.
• Convey technical findings and results to broad audiences in engineering, business, law, and industry.
• Work collaboratively across disciplines and readily taking on new technical challenges outside your immediate area of expertise.

Kenntnisse

Python programming

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Strong written and verbal kommunicati

Analytical judgment

Initiative and curiosity

Ability to learn quickly

Ausbildung

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering

Ph.D. in Chemistry

Tools

FTIR

DSC

TGA

SEM

Raman

UV-Vis

Jobbeschreibung

Exponent is seeking a Chemical Engineer or Materials Engineer/Scientist to join the Polymers and Chemistry Practice in Seattle. You will work on interdisciplinary teams on projects across construction materials, consumer products, energy, and infrastructure, including technical failure analyses and development testing.

The ideal candidate holds a Ph.D. or equivalent, with macromolecules expertise and analytical techniques (FTIR, DSC, TGA, SEM, Raman, UV-Vis).