Senior Applications and Product Development Scientist

Role details

Are you looking to power the next leap in the exciting world of advanced electronics? Do you want to help solve problems that drive success in the rapidly evolving technology and connectivity landscape? Then bring your problem-solving, passion, and creativity to help us power the next leap in electronics.

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, we’re more than a global leader in materials and solutions for advanced electronics and high-tech industries – we’re a tight-knit team that is motivated by new possibilities, and always up for a challenge. All our dedicated teams contribute to making cutting-edge technology possible. We value forward-thinking challengers, boundary-pushers, and diverse perspectives across all our departments, because we know we play a critical role in the world enabling faster progress for all. Learn how you can start or jumpstart your career with us.

Position Summary

Qnity Electronics is seeking a highly experienced

Senior Applications & Product Development Scientist

to join our Semiconductor Technologies team in Marlborough, Massachusetts. This role will lead the development, characterization, scale-up, commercialization, and customer implementation of advanced electronic materials used in semiconductor manufacturing.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in semiconductor materials and process development who can bridge laboratory innovation, manufacturing execution, product quality, and customer applications. This individual will play a critical role in bringing new products to market, optimizing process performance, improving yields, and solving complex technical challenges for customers and manufacturing partners.

This position is 100% onsite located in our Marlborough, MA location. Candidates who currently live within a daily commutable distance to this location will be given priority.

*Please note: Sponsorship is not available now or in the future for this rol* e.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development and commercialization of advanced electronic materials, including formulation, characterization, application testing, scale-up, manufacturing transfer, and customer qualification.
• Establish structure-property-process-performance relationships to improve material performance, product robustness, and manufacturing consistency.
• Design and execute laboratory, cleanroom, and customer-site evaluations utilizing statistical analysis and Design of Experiments (DOE) methodologies.
• Collaborate with R&D, Applications Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain teams to successfully launch new products.
• Develop best-known methods, technical recommendations, process windows, and test protocols that meet customer and business requirements.
• Lead complex root-cause investigations involving product performance, manufacturing processes, customer applications, and quality issues.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) across cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Support installation, qualification, optimization, and troubleshooting of semiconductor material processes at customer, foundry, OEM, and equipment supplier sites.
• Prepare and present technical reports, customer presentations, development updates, and commercialization documentation.
• Foster a culture of safety, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Science, or a related technical discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of industrial experience in semiconductor materials, electronic materials, lithography, advanced packaging, metallization, dielectric materials, photoresists, photodielectrics, or similar technologies.
• Experience in materials formulation, process development, applications engineering, and product commercialization.
• Hands-on experience working in semiconductor fabs, cleanrooms, applications laboratories, or manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated success leading product scale-up, manufacturing transfers, customer qualifications, process optimization, troubleshooting, and yield improvement initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of structured problem-solving methodologies, root-cause analysis, CAPA processes, statistical methods, and DOE.
• Proficiency with JMP, Minitab, MATLAB, or similar data analysis tools.
• Excellent communication, project leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with dielectric polymers, metallization chemistries, photoresists, photodielectrics, dry films, or semiconductor packaging materials.
• Knowledge of metallization and photoresist chemistry across various wavelengths and process platforms.
• Experience with analytical and metrology techniques including SEM, optical microscopy, profilometry, XRF, UV-Vis, CVS, LPC, or similar methods.
• Experience qualifying and supporting lithography, coating, plating, or semiconductor process equipment.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 or related quality-management systems; lead auditor experience is a plus.
• Six Sigma certification or equivalent continuous improvement training.
• Experience working directly with semiconductor manufacturers, foundries, OEMs, or equipment suppliers.

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Qnity offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package. To learn more visit the Compensation and Benefits page.

We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance our recruitment process. The Pay range for this role is $130,200.00 - $204,600.00 Annual

How Base Pay is Determined

Qnity has job leveling frameworks that help organize roles based on progressive levels of responsibility, proficiency and qualifications. Each role has an associated pay range (or an established pay rate for some roles) based on the competitive market in each country where we operate. Each individual’s pay is based on a variety of factors, including their role and the associated pay range for that role, their geographic location (i.e., country, state, metropolitan area), as well as their skills, experience, education and certifications, and performance.