Materials Process Scientist Jobs

Responsible for examining the properties of substances, such as its structure, composition, and function, to develop new and better products and materials.

Primary Responsibilities

• Observe the structures, compositions, reactions, and other properties of substances.
• Determine ways to strengthen or combine materials or develop new materials for use in a variety of products.
• Work with biologists to develop new drugs and with engineers to design ways to mass produce them.
• Work alongside glass scientists, ceramic scientists, metallurgical scientists, and polymer scientists.
• Study properties of various natural and synthetic or composite materials, including metals, alloys, rubber, ceramics, semiconductors, polymers, and glass.
• Investigate the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties.
• Advise on proper chemical processing and testing procedures, such as ingredients, mixing times, and operating temperatures.
• Work to develop new and improved drugs, plastics, cleaners, and thousands of other products.
• Create new products and processes or improve existing ones.
• Manipulate the defects in crystalline materials such as precipitates, grain boundaries, interstitial atoms, vacancies or substitutional atoms, to create materials with the desired properties.
• Work on teams with other scientists, such as biologists and physicists, computer specialists, and engineers.
• Extract materials and convert into useful forms.

Masters Degree or PhD