Senior Materials Scientist: AI-Driven Polymers & Coatings

Averydennison; Mentor (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Avery Dennison is seeking a highly creative, scientifically rigorous Senior Materials Scientist to augment the understanding and development of silicone and non-silicone based release systems, acrylic pressure sensitive adhesives, and other materials technologies critical to our platforms.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of polymer chemistry, physics, interface science, and AI/ML-enabled materials development to advance our scientific understanding.

Qualifications

• PhD in Polymer or Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or a closely-related discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years of direct industrial R&D experience in developing novel materials paradigms with demonstrated expertise in polymer science, coatings, or related fields.
• Strong ability to connect materials structure, formulation, processing, properties and performance through rigorous scientific reasoning and independent experimentation.
• Prior experience with automated high-throughput experimentation, robotics, self-driving autonomous laboratory concepts, or developing model-ready scientific databases is highly desirable.
• Industrial R&D experience with silicone release coatings, release liners, silicone formulations or related technologies is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive understanding of materials and phenomena, including release coatings, adhesives, gels, colloids, and laminates.
• Conceive and develop new material paradigms and translate science into practical, scalable materials and products.
• Identify experimentation and modeling approaches to build structure–property–process–performance fundamentals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate concepts into reality and design experiments to test hypotheses.
• Establish the foundation for autonomous self-driving lab capabilities by linking automated HTE, databases, models, and human judgement.

Skills

Polymer science

Coatings

Materials science

Experimental design

Autonomous lab concepts

AI/ML-enabled development

Education

PhD in Polymer or Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or closely-related discipline

Tools

High-throughput automation

Robotics

Model-ready databases

Job description

Avery Dennison is seeking a highly creative, scientifically rigorous Senior Materials Scientist to augment the understanding and development of silicone and non-silicone based release systems, acrylic pressure sensitive adhesives, and other materials technologies critical to our platforms.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of polymer chemistry, physics, interface science, and AI/ML-enabled materials development to advance our scientific understanding.