Senior Applications and Product Development Scientist

Qnity Electronics, Inc.; Marlborough, Northern (MA, KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Qnity Electronics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Applications and Product Development Scientist to lead development, characterization, scale-up, and customer implementation of advanced electronic materials used in semiconductor manufacturing.

The role bridges lab innovation with manufacturing, product quality, and customer applications. The candidate will drive product commercialization, optimize process performance, improve yields, and solve complex technical challenges for customers and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of industrial experience in semiconductor materials or related fields.
• Hands-on experience in labs, fabs, or manufacturing environments.
• Experience leading product scale-up, transfers, and customer qualifications.
• Strong problem-solving, DOE, and statistical analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and commercialization of advanced electronic materials from formulation to customer qualification.
• Establish relationships linking material properties to process performance.
• Design and execute DOE studies in lab, cleanroom, and customer sites.
• Collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain.
• Develop methods, test protocols, and process windows meeting customer requirements.
• Lead root-cause investigations and drive CAPA across teams and partners.
• Support installation, qualification, optimization, and troubleshooting at sites.
• Prepare technical reports and commercialization documentation.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

DOE / design of experiments

Root-cause analysis

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

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

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

JMP

Minitab

MATLAB

Job description

Senior Applications and Product Development Scientist

Position Summary

Qnity Electronics is seeking a highly experienced Senior Applications & Product Development Scientist to join our Semiconductor Technologies team in Marlborough, Massachusetts. This role will lead the development, characterization, scale-up, commercialization, and customer implementation of advanced electronic materials used in semiconductor manufacturing.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in semiconductor materials and process development who can bridge laboratory innovation, manufacturing execution, product quality, and customer applications. This individual will play a critical role in bringing new products to market, optimizing process performance, improving yields, and solving complex technical challenges for customers and manufacturing partners.

This position is 100% onsite located in our Marlborough, MA location. Candidates who currently live within a daily commutable distance to this location will be given priority.

Please note: Sponsorship is not available now or in the future for this role.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development and commercialization of advanced electronic materials, including formulation, characterization, application testing, scale-up, manufacturing transfer, and customer qualification.
• Establish structure-property-process-performance relationships to improve material performance, product robustness, and manufacturing consistency.
• Design and execute laboratory, cleanroom, and customer-site evaluations utilizing statistical analysis and Design of Experiments (DOE) methodologies.
• Collaborate with R&D, Applications Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain teams to successfully launch new products.
• Develop best-known methods, technical recommendations, process windows, and test protocols that meet customer and business requirements.
• Lead complex root-cause investigations involving product performance, manufacturing processes, customer applications, and quality issues.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) across cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Support installation, qualification, optimization, and troubleshooting of semiconductor material processes at customer, foundry, OEM, and equipment supplier sites.
• Prepare and present technical reports, customer presentations, development updates, and commercialization documentation.
• Foster a culture of safety, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Science, or a related technical discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of industrial experience in semiconductor materials, electronic materials, lithography, advanced packaging, metallization, dielectric materials, photoresists, photodielectrics, or similar technologies.
• Experience in materials formulation, process development, applications engineering, and product commercialization.
• Hands-on experience working in semiconductor fabs, cleanrooms, applications laboratories, or manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated success leading product scale-up, manufacturing transfers, customer qualifications, process optimization, troubleshooting, and yield improvement initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of structured problem-solving methodologies, root-cause analysis, CAPA processes, statistical methods, and DOE.
• Proficiency with JMP, Minitab, MATLAB, or similar data analysis tools.
• Excellent communication, project leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with dielectric polymers, metallization chemistries, photoresists, photodielectrics, dry films, or semiconductor packaging materials.
• Knowledge of metallization and photoresist chemistry across various wavelengths and process platforms.
• Experience with analytical and metrology techniques including SEM, optical microscopy, profilometry, XRF, UV-Vis, CVS, LPC, or similar methods.
• Experience qualifying and supporting lithography, coating, plating, or semiconductor process equipment.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 or related quality-management systems; lead auditor experience is a plus.
• Six Sigma certification or equivalent continuous improvement training.
• Experience working directly with semiconductor manufacturers, foundries, OEMs, or equipment suppliers.