Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Soft Materials Experimentation

Highlights

• Build and lead experimental soft materials team for formulations and polymers.
• Turn soft-matter problems into closed-loop autonomous workflows.
• Define measurement strategies that power ML-driven inverse design.

What they offer

• Bonus potential
• Generous early-stage equity
• Comprehensive benefits program

Ideal candidate

A hands-on soft-matter leader who stays close to the bench while mentoring teams. You thrive bridging strategy and experimentation to turn complex formulations into data-driven discovery.

Requirements

• PhD in Materials Science, Polymer Science, Chemical Engineering, or Chemistry with 8+ years post-degree R&D experience
• Experience leading scientific teams as formal manager or technical lead
• Deep soft-matter fundamentals across phase behavior, rheology, interfaces and colloids
• Hands-on record formulating multicomponent systems and translating structure-property relationships into performance
• Demonstrated delivery against external milestones with industrial partners
• Data-centric practice with DoE, high-throughput methods and ML collaboration
• Comfort moving between strategy and bench-level troubleshooting across multiple sites