Materials and Process Engineer

Role Summary

Responsibilities

• Own material selection across dielectrics, polymers, resins, composites, and coatings, balancing electrical performance, manufacturability, cost, and long-term reliability.
• Lead process development and qualification for potting, coating, casting, molding, thin film deposition, and related processes.
• Define key process parameters, processing conditions, and processing windows, and work with manufacturing and quality to establish production feasibility and control limits.
• Own materials characterization through a combination of in-house testing and third-party labs, including dielectric, thermal, mechanical, and chemical performance.
• Lead root-cause and failure analysis on materials and process issues across design, manufacturing, and field domains, identifying the mechanism rather than the correlation.
• Source and co-develop novel materials with suppliers when commercially available options cannot meet product requirements.
• Partner with external vendors and internal teams on process equipment selection and optimization to improve material properties and processing capability.
• Influence system-level trade-offs across insulation design, thermal management, packaging, power density, cost, and manufacturability.
• Ensure materials and process solutions scale across product variants and future platforms.
• Elevate materials engineering standards through rigorous design reviews, structured experimentation, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in materials processing in production-relevant settings, such as coating, injection molding, casting, potting, or thin film deposition.
• Direct experience and deep understanding of polymers, resins, particles, coating formulations, and composite materials, including how they cure, age, and fail.
• Strong command of fundamental materials properties — dielectric, electrical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical — and how they trade against one another.
• Strong hands-on experimental skills and demonstrated process development capability.
• Proven ability to drive material and process development by combining data-driven metrics with fundamental mechanisms.
• Extensive hands-on laboratory and production floor experience, including leading characterization and validation activities.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with external vendors and internal teams to take a process from initial feasibility to repeatable production.
• Demonstrated ability to independently resolve complex, cross-domain technical challenges and drive cross-functional trade-off decisions.

Bonus Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of industry materials processing experience.
• Experience in the development of dielectric materials.
• Deep understanding of partial discharge, dielectric breakdown, and electrical insulation materials.
• Exposure to medium-voltage power electronics systems.
• Experience taking a material or process through qualification for a high-reliability product in power, aerospace, automotive, or semiconductor.
• Experience supporting products from R&D through production release.
• Experience contributing to patents or novel materials and process techniques.

Pay Disclosure & Benefits

• Compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.
• The benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United States.
• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)
• Singapore-based employees receive benefits in accordance with local government provisions.

Equal Employment Opportunity