R&D Materials & Process Engineer

Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States. Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Company

hirify.global manufactures American rare-earth permanent magnets for defense, aerospace, automotive, and other critical industries.

What you will do

• Develop, optimize, and scale sintered NdFeB magnet manufacturing processes.
• Refine strip casting, hydrogen decrepitation, jet milling, powder pressing, alignment, sintering, and heat-treatment steps.
• Develop vacuum sintering profiles and thermal cycles to improve microstructure and magnetic performance.
• Design experiments to improve magnetic performance, throughput, yield, and cost.
• Conduct root-cause failure analysis and eliminate processing defects.
• Scale validated processes from laboratory and pilot equipment to commercial production lines in collaboration with production and equipment engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Metallurgical Engineering, Physics, or Process Engineering.
• 3+ years of direct experience in process engineering or an industrial R&D environment.
• Practical knowledge of powder metallurgy, vacuum thermal processing, and metal powder pressing.
• Hands-on experience operating, troubleshooting, or optimizing industrial processing equipment.
• Proficiency with hysteresisgraph and pulsed field magnetometry systems, SEM/EDS, XRD, and particle size analyzers.
• Experience applying DOE, Six Sigma methodologies, and statistical tools such as Python or JMP for data analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience manufacturing or designing sintered NdFeB magnets.
• Experience with inert gas handling, oxygen-controlled environments, and powder oxidation prevention.
• Experience with automated material handling or pressing-tooling design for high-volume magnet manufacturing.

Culture & Benefits

• Work supports national security and economic resiliency through domestic rare-earth magnet manufacturing.
• Culture emphasizes mission focus, technical excellence, and transparency.
• Responsibilities may evolve according to business needs.