Materials Scientist/Metallurgy (CO, Denver)

Starfire Energy is a clean energy company that walks the walk.

We are a Colorado Public Benefit Corporation.

Our focus is the generation of carbon-free ammonia (NH3) and derived fuels.

We have a proprietary and flexible process for making ammonia from air, water, and clean energy.

Our ammonia cracker then produces an ammonia-hydrogen blend fuel or pure hydrogen.

The emissions from ammonia fuel are nitrogen and water.

We are providing a completely CO2-free way to make and use fuel for long term energy storage, transportation, and heat applications.

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As a high-growth, start-up organization, we offer the unique opportunity for you to contribute in many facets of the business and advance your career.

You will enter a small, dynamic company that is executing aggressive growth, and you will help commercialize clean technologies that will become a part of the world?s energy infrastructure.

We value creativity and integrity and we plan for sustainability in all that we do.

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The Materials Scientist/Metallurgy?s primary responsibility is to lead the efforts in identifying, testing, evaluating, and selecting different materials suitable for bench-top and large-scale production and decomposition of NH3.

In collaboration with the internal engineering team and external partners, she/he will analyze and evaluate the chemical, structural, physical and mechanical properties of advanced materials and diverse catalysts loaded on different substrates and identify optimum solutions.

The successful candidate will also examine the catalysts and materials performance using a bench-top reactor and participate in process modeling, simulation and design of new reactors for ammonia cracking and synthesis.

He/she will assist in intellectual property (IP) generation and closely work with engineering and fabrication groups for large-scale production and commercialization.

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This position is not eligible for work visa (H-1B), and employees are required to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID.

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• Collaborate with other scientists, engineers and subject matter experts to solve complex material challenges on our current bench-top and modular NH3 synthesis andcracking equipment.
• Characterize and evaluate physical, mechanical, chemical, structural and/or other pertinent properties of substrates and materials.
• Tests the performance and assess the property and stability of catalysts coated on different substrates.
• Read research and patent literature to keep up to date on recent progress of advanced materials and processes used in, or suitable for use in, ammonia synthesis and cracking applications.
• Research, suggest and implement novel material solutions to improve materials property and stability.
• Provide technical direction and guidance in materials evaluation and selection.
• Guide and actively implement new and modified designs for bench-top reactors as well as perform modeling and simulation of thermal properties, heat transfer, fluid flow, etc.
• Interpret data and communicate findings to the materials development and engineering teams.
• Anticipate potential opportunities and challenges and identify improvement areas.
• Document all research activities and results.
• Other duties as assigned