About the companyFoundation Alloy is building the most advanced metal alloy company in the world. Our mission is to unlock performance that legacy materials and processes simply cannot deliver, enabling the next generation of critical hardware across space, aerospace, defense, energy, and industrial applications.Our proprietary MetalsFIRST™ platform eliminates melting entirely, using mechanical alloying and rapid sintering to produce alloys with ultra-fine grain structures and exceptional properties. We are already deploying initial materials, including our Molyclast™ alloys (MC700, MC1200, and MC-X) and specialty steels.We are a Boston-area company commercializing deep materials science developed at the intersection of advanced manufacturing and frontier materials science. We move fast, operate with high technical rigor, and are scaling the infrastructure to bring these materials into production.What you’ll be working on:Foundation Alloy is seeking a Senior Materials Scientist to join our team. You will be working closely with a talented and collaborative group of engineers and materials scientists to invent new alloys and optimize sinter-based manufacturing processes. This is a hands-on position focused on the metallurgy and materials science behind designing, processing, and characterizing next-generation alloys.Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Design, create, and test new, high performance alloys that solve persistent customer materials problems in industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, aerospace, energy, and defense markets.</li><li>Create and execute experimental plans on time and on budget. Collaborate with product, commercial, and manufacturing teams to achieve development goals.</li><li>Work hands-on to innovate through the entire alloy development process:<ul><li>Produce lab scale samples</li></ul><ul><li>Develop robust processes for near net shape consolidation of powder including additive manufacturing.</li></ul><ul><li>Design sintering recipes and operate furnaces to densify parts.</li></ul><ul><li>Prepare and characterize samples using standard and novel metallurgical characterization techniques.</li></ul></li><li>Analyze experimental data and be able to:</li><li>Describe results and metallurgical mechanisms across the organization. </li><li>Turn inventions and discoveries into actionable process improvements or saleable new products.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgy, or a related field with 2+ years of relevant industry experience.</li><li>Passion for imagining what’s possible and the energy, drive, leadership, and creativity to make it happen in a fast-paced, evolving start-up environment.</li><li>Industrial research background with experience:<ul><li>Inventing and developing new products</li></ul><ul><li>Understanding customer needs and delivering metallurgical solutions</li></ul><ul><li>Working with commercial and operational teams to move developments from the lab to the customer</li></ul></li><li>A belief in the importance of communication and a proven ability to communicate with coworkers from the leadership team to the shop floor.</li><li>Expertise in one or more of these technical areas: powder metallurgy, sintering, alloy design, computational materials science, and/or relevant metallurgical characterization methods.</li></ul>CultureWe don’t look for profiles that “fit” with our culture. We look for people that add to who we are - people with the initiative, positive approach to problem solving, and passion for something (anything!) that will make them both high impact and exciting to work alongside from day one. We know that these people come from all walks of life, with all backgrounds and levels of experience. If you’re excited about the work we can do together, please reach out. We enthusiastically welcome team members of all races, colors, religions, ages, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, national origins, different abilities, genetics, veteran statuses, and former incarceration statuses.Compensation and BenefitsThe success of this company will be grounded in the long-term productivity of our team. To provide everyone with the physical, mental and financial safety to operate at their long-term best, we provide the following:

Foundation Alloy integrates proprietary alloy design technology from MIT and UC Irvine, advanced manufacturing and automation to recast the metal parts manufacturing industry. FA metals can be fabricated into parts with less time, less energy, and better outcomes than legacy materials, and have superior mechanical properties than the current state of the art. By focusing on scalable, quality manufacturing, FA will provide the performance and production efficiency, flexibility &amp; reliability necessary to unlock the next generations of industrial products.&nbsp;

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