Senior/Chief Scientist R&D -1471

We are seeking a pioneer researcher and scientific leader who works best at the frontier of a field, defines their own questions, and is energized by the absence of a roadmap.

Your mandate will be to identify, investigate, and de-risk platform-level opportunities in porous media materials and mechanisms that could define entirely new product categories. You will report directly to senior R&D leadership and operate with genuine scientific autonomy. Title will depend on experience and track record in the industry.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Scan the porous media landscape nonwovens, polymer membranes, metamaterials, and other fibrous structures for convergence zones and white-space opportunities invisible from within a single material class.
• Formulate original research hypotheses, design experiments to de-risk them, and execute at TRL 1-3 with full scientific independence.
• Build and maintain an active presence in the external scientific community: publish, present, collaborate with academic partners, and serve as the scientific antenna in your domain.
• Apply computational and AI-assisted tools, including high-throughput experimentation, design of experiments, and Bayesian optimization, to accelerate discovery cycles.
• Communicate findings clearly to senior R&D and executive leadership: what you found, what it means, and, just as importantly, what you killed and why.
• Identify opportunities to