Senior Development Scientist - Glass Melting Process
About The Position
Corning Incorporated is seeking a Senior Development Scientist to join its Glass Melting team at the Sullivan Park R&D center in Corning, New York. The role focuses on developing glass-melting processes for new compositions that are consistent, controlled, and ready for pilot or manufacturing scale. It may suit candidates with hands-on glass melting or other high-temperature materials experience who have helped move a process from laboratory work toward scale-up. The position is onsite, Monday through Friday, for a 40-hour week, with flexibility as needed and up to 25% travel to Corning locations. Relocation assistance is available. The position supports immigration sponsorship.
Requirements
- PhD in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Geology, or a related field with at least 5 years of relevant R&D experience, or a master's degree with at least 10 years of relevant R&D experience.
- Hands-on experience melting or processing materials above 1000°C, such as glass, ceramics, or metals.
- Experience taking a process from concept through scale-up, trials, or transfer to pilot or manufacturing.
- Working knowledge of heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, reaction kinetics, and thermodynamics, and how they connect material properties with process and product performance.
- Ability to interpret process-modeling outputs to guide experiments; model building is not required.
- Clear communication skills and ability to work independently across interdisciplinary teams.
Nice To Haves
- Direct glass melting experience, including equipment and quality measurements.
- Industry development, pilot-line, or manufacturing experience.
- Experience partnering with equipment designers to specify or build process equipment.
Responsibilities
- Design, conduct, and analyze melting and process experiments, and determine next steps.
- Develop repeatable processes from laboratory-scale melts that produce consistent samples.
- Define manufacturing platform requirements, including what must be measured and controlled.
- Transfer processes to pilot lines or manufacturing and ensure technical and operational readiness.
- Develop analytical tools and techniques to make processes robust and optimized.
- Partner with research, modeling, characterization, and equipment design experts, using modeling outputs to guide experiments.
- Communicate findings and risks to stakeholders while managing multiple programs.
Benefits
- Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives.
- Company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions.
- Matching contributions to a 401(k) savings plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Paid parental leave and family-building support.
- Fitness benefits.
- Company-paid life insurance and disability benefits.
- Disease management programs.
- Paid time off.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Recognition program to celebrate successes and reward exceptional contributions.
- Relocation assistance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
