Senior Process Engineer

The role

The Senior Process Engineer provides technical leadership for sputtering and related thin-film deposition processes. This role works to advance a continuous manufacturing platform for high-temperature superconducting wire.

What you will do

• Own technical development and continuous improvement of sputtering and thin-film deposition processes.
• Define process capability improvement strategies to increase throughput and film quality.
• Evaluate emerging deposition technologies and manufacturing approaches.
• Provide technical leadership for deposition process performance across development and scale-up.
• Design and execute statistically rigorous experiments to optimize processes.
• Apply engineering principles to solve challenges in film deposition, stability, and yield.
• Establish operating windows, process controls, and statistical monitoring strategies.
• Troubleshoot complex manufacturing issues and implement corrective actions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to transition process improvements into production.
• Mentor junior engineers and support technical development of personnel.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related engineering or scientific discipline.
• Four years of process engineering or manufacturing engineering experience involving sputtering, physical vapor deposition (PVD), vacuum thin-film deposition, or closely related deposition technologies
• An advanced degree may be substituted for required experience on a year-for-year basis.
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing statistically driven process improvement experiments.
• Experience analyzing manufacturing data using statistical methods.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex manufacturing processes and implementing sustainable corrective actions.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Engineering or a related scientific discipline.
• Experience supporting high-temperature superconductors (HTS), semiconductor manufacturing, advanced coatings, optical coatings, battery materials, magnetic materials, or other thin-film technologies.
• Experience with reactive sputtering, magnetron sputtering, and biased or ion-assisted processing.
• Experience supporting technology transfer from development into manufacturing.
• Experience leading Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, or Six Sigma initiatives.
• Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), MSA, JMP, Minitab, Python, or other statistical analysis tools.
• Experience with vacuum systems, plasma processing, and thin-film characterization techniques.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision available on the first day of the month following your start date
• 401(k) match
• Paid parental leave & adoption assistance
• Educational reimbursement

About the company

MetOx International is pioneering the next era of energy security and abundance through breakthrough superconducting technology.