Senior Scientist - Ion Exchange

Responsibilities

• Lead ion-exchange technology development, unlocking a new pandora’s box of processing innovations from critical minerals to beyond.
• Define novel selective elution sequencing and train configurations for multi-species partitioning.
• Release dynamic customer unit operation cost estimation tooling from internally developed CFD Multiphysics digital twins.
• Develop novel selective elution strategies from first principles and translating to multi-species partitioning in multi-column series or parallel pilot systems.
• Lead joint development programs with novel ligand development partners.
• Execute the manufacturing scale-up of novel ion-exchange resin media.

Requirements

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, or Polymer Engineering.
• Ion-exchange scientist with at least 5 years in resin chemistry, column science, and hydrometallurgical separations.
• Practitioner of polymerization, functionalization, and conditioning with measured control of crosslinking, porosity, swelling, and mechanical strength.
• Experimentalist fluent in analytical and physical testing — SEM, BET, FTIR, ICP-OES/MS, TGA/DSC.
• Modeler skilled in equilibrium, speciation, and kinetic frameworks using MetSim, HSC Chemistry, OLI Studio, PHREEQC.

Qualifications

• Must be willing to relocate to Chattanooga, TN.
• Chattanooga is more beautiful than expected, and Tennessee has no income tax.
• Flexibility for extended hours during critical project phases.

Benefits

• Compensation Range: $90K - $160K
• Benefits
• Equity

Pay

• $90,000 - $160,000

Schedule

• Not specified