Senior Engineer, Battery Materials (Process Technology)

Location: Billerica, Massachusetts, United States; hybrid schedule with Monday and Friday remote work and Tuesday–Thursday in the office

Salary: $128,300–$186,100 per year, plus annual bonus eligibility

Company

hirify.global is a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company developing materials for transportation, infrastructure, environmental, consumer, and battery applications.

What you will do

• Lead medium- to high-complexity engineering projects from concept through pilot development, implementation, scale-up, and commercialization.
• Define technical objectives, strategies, and experimental plans aligned with customer, manufacturing, and business requirements.
• Design and execute experiments involving conductive additives, dispersions, fumed metal oxides, aerogels, and related battery-material technologies.
• Analyze process and material performance data using engineering, statistical, modeling, and theoretical methods.
• Support process design, pilot operations, technology transfer, manufacturing implementation, and customer-facing technical evaluations.
• Lead root-cause investigations, communicate technical recommendations, identify intellectual property opportunities, and mentor engineers and project teams.

Requirements

• Ph.D. with 2+ years, master’s degree with 6+ years, or bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of relevant industrial or applied research experience in chemical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading complex process, product-development, scale-up, or manufacturing-improvement projects.
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals, troubleshooting, experimental design, and statistical data analysis.
• Experience translating experimental results into improvements in capability, performance, quality, or manufacturability.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work from the Billerica Technical Center in a hybrid Monday–Friday arrangement, with office attendance Tuesday–Thursday.

Nice to have

• Experience with particle technologies, carbon materials, high-temperature processes, catalysis, combustion, gas-solid reactors, gasification, or related materials-processing technologies.
• Experience with pilot operations, manufacturing implementation, external partners, vendors, toll manufacturers, customers, battery materials, process modeling, or reaction engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, flexible, and growth-oriented working environment.
• Training, coaching, and professional development support.
• Health benefits beginning on the first day of employment.
• 401(k) savings plan, vision and dental coverage, vacation, and annual performance-based bonus eligibility.
• Commitment to safe, responsible, sustainable, and environmentally focused development and manufacturing.