Startup Process Engineer: Scale Advanced Materials

Critical Fit Recruiting; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Critical Fit Recruiting seeks a Process Engineer to join a startup in Boston, MA. You will translate new processes into clear, repeatable procedures and own process control, data analysis, and safety targets.

You will design and optimize novel chemical processes, execute DOE studies, and lead 6S and safety initiatives while collaborating with Engineering, Operations, and Quality to scale capacity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Chemical Engineering or Materials Science; equivalent experience considered.
• Demonstrated success developing chemical processes, roll-to-roll systems, and other continuous manufacturing workflows.
• Hands‑on ability to perform hazard analyses, define engineering controls, and ensure safe operation of complex processes.
• Strong understanding of sensing technologies and data acquisition methods for process monitoring and control.
• Commitment to 6S principles and building clean, organized, and efficient work areas.
• Consistent track record of driving continuous improvement initiatives that raise throughput, quality, and reliability.
• Ability to perform process FMEAs to identify risks, prioritize mitigations, and strengthen process robustness.
• Solid grounding in applied statistics, including capability analysis, control charts, ANOVA, and hypothesis testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize novel chemical/materials processes for commercial production of advanced materials.
• Deliver key Release-to-Manufacturing milestones and capacity scaling across new manufacturing and quality processes.
• Develop and execute DOE’s that improve understanding of process fundamentals and ultimately lead to increases in process stability, capability, and scale.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolution of assignable cause variation.
• Identify, select, and implement instrumentation, controls, etc. to enable process and material characterization necessary to achieve developmental goals.
• Conceive new process equipment designs or modifications to commercially available equipment to suit process requirements. Lead activities of external vendors or internal counterparts to execute these designs/modifications.
• Assist Operations team in devising and implementing workflow improvements.
• Work with quality engineers to establish quality metrics that assure product form, fit, and function.
• Lead process FMEA for new processes.
• Conspicuously exemplify high standards of safety, organization, communication, and documentation.
• Implement 6S for production equipment and workstations.
• Work effectively in a startup or small company setting. Embrace challenges, adapt to changes, and continuously seek to improve.

Skills

Process design

DOE studies

6S

Hazard analysis

Data acquisition

Process controls

Statistical methods

Continuous improvement

FMEA

Roll-to-roll

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering

Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering or Materials Science

Job description

Critical Fit Recruiting seeks a Process Engineer to join a startup in Boston, MA. You will translate new processes into clear, repeatable procedures and own process control, data analysis, and safety targets.

You will design and optimize novel chemical processes, execute DOE studies, and lead 6S and safety initiatives while collaborating with Engineering, Operations, and Quality to scale capacity.