Senior Research & Development Scientist

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We are hiring a Senior Research & Development Scientist to join our Cleveland, Ohio team.

The Senior Research & Development Scientist develop novel polymer-based materials for thermal and EMI management solutions.  This position requires background in chemistry, polymer science, or polymer composites, and a strong understanding of materials and structure-property relationships.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Use solid scientific principles to plan and conduct lab experiments, prepare samples, characterize materials and understand composition and property relationships.
• Develop, formulate, and characterize new technically advanced materials per product development roadmap with minimal guidance.  
• Generate technical reports and project progress reports on a routine basis.   
• Interface directly with suppliers to identify and develop novel inputs to formulations to enable unique and robust material properties.
• Actively participate on multi-disciplinary product development teams to drive material commercialization on an aggressive schedule.  
• Serve as product subject matter expert and interface with quality, engineering, sales and senior technologies to troubleshoot product issues after commercialization as needed.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in polymer science, materials science, or chemistry.  PhD preferred.
• 5+ years’ experience in polymer composites/materials development
• Experience and knowledge with polymer structure, polymer chemistry, polymer composites, rheology control, instruments.
• Experience in customer engagement and interaction.
• Proven managerial expertise.
• Chemistry, polymer and materials characterization techniques such as TGA, DSC, rheometer, FTIR, SEM, etc.
• Hands on experience with formulating, polymer-filler system is preferred.
• Experience with silicone and thermoplastics is a plus.
• Experience with complex fluids, structure fluids is a plus.
• Ability to work well in Team environment.
• Highly motivated with hands-on approach to laboratory work.

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