Senior Scientist, Coating Process

Requisition Number: 75125

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Corning’s businesses are ever-evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets. We are changing the world with:

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation
• Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

Role Purpose

Corning Incorporated is hiring a Sr. Scientist, Coating Process at Sullivan Park in Corning, NY . This is a full-time onsite role that typically works Monday–Friday, 40 hours per week, with flex as needed , and requires less than 5% travel , with possible international travel. Relocation assistance is available.

Join Corning’s Corning Environmental Technologies ( CET) Development team at Sullivan Park, Corning’s central R&D campus , and support coating development for ceramic substrates and filters . In this hands-on scientist role, you will help develop and evaluate slurry coatings, catalyst or absorbent systems, and related processes that enable products to perform in areas such as emissions control and carbon capture. You will work across technicians, program managers, technical development teams, and external partners to plan experiments, analyze performance, troubleshoot issues, and support process scale-up and application development.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead experimental design, execution, and analysis for coating and materials processing projects
• Develop and optimize slurry coatings, coating processes, and related test methods for ceramic substrates and filters
• Delegate experimental activities to technicians and communicate priorities across project teams
• Perform material characterization, analyze technical data, and recommend next steps
• Investigate performance issues and conduct failure analysis on internal and external samples
• Partner with technical development teams supporting carbon capture, future CET programs, and base business applications
• Collaborate with external customers, coaters, and contract manufacturers
• Support process transfer, qualification, and scale-up activities

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related field
• Experience designing and executing experiments and analyzing technical data in a hands-on materials, coating, or process development environment
• Experience with laboratory materials characterization and property testing methods
• Ability to work effectively across research, development, and manufacturing with a range of technical and business stakeholders
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to coordinate and delegate work to technicians
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt in a fast-moving, changing project environment

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related field
• Experience with slurry coatings, coating process development, or related materials processing
• Experience with analytical techniques such as SEM, XRD, FTIR, TGA/DSC, ICP, XRF, or similar
• Experience in industrial coating, catalyst coatings, carbon capture, Direct Air Capture, sorbent/absorption systems, or related environmental technologies
• Experience with DOE, statistical analysis, process transfer, scale-up, or coater/contract manufacturer qualification

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

The range for this position is $85,440.00 - $117,480.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.

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