Senior Materials Scientist - AI/ML for Materials Design

Company Description

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. We are Making Possible™ products and solutions that help advance the industries we serve, providing branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste and mitigate loss, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency and better connect brands and consumers. We design and develop labeling and functional materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital and offerings that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving industries worldwide — including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive — we employ approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2025 were $8.9 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

At Avery Dennison, some of the great benefits we provide are:

• Health & wellness benefits starting on day 1 of employment

• Paid parental leave

• 401K eligibility

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program eligibility / Health Advocate

• Paid vacation and paid holidays

Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional scientist to help pioneer AI-enabled materials discovery and optimization across complex polymeric and soft materials systems. This role sits within the Materials Science & Characterization (MSC) group and will drive the integration of machine learning, physics-based modeling, and experimental design to accelerate innovation across Avery Dennison’s global product portfolio.

The role requires  intellectually curious scientists who are excited by hard interdisciplinary problems and who enjoy bringing together fundamental physics, data science with highly practical impact. Lead the development of predictive AI-enabled materials discovery frameworks that connect process → structure → properties → performance across multiple spatial and temporal scales. The successful candidate will work at the frontier of materials science, physics-informed AI, and autonomous experimentation, developing predictive and generative models capable of accelerating innovation across Avery Dennison’s global materials portfolio.

We are particularly interested in scientists excited about building and applying new computational frameworks that integrate machine learning, simulation, and experimentation for complex real-world industrial materials systems.

Responsibilities:

AI-Driven Materials Discovery

• Develop and deploy machine learning and deep learning models to accelerate materials design and formulation optimization.

• Implement physics-informed ML and hybrid modeling frameworks combining thermodynamics, kinetics, rheology, and materials physics with modern AI architectures.

• Apply inverse design approaches to identify materials formulations and structures that achieve targeted performance.

Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulation

• Integrate molecular, mesoscale, and continuum modeling approaches with AI-driven surrogate models.

• Utilize techniques such as Molecular Dynamics (MD), Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD), Mean-field and coarse-grained models (CGMD), Finite element and continuum modeling (FEA) to inform ML Modeling strategies.

• Develop multi-fidelity modeling strategies combining simulations, experimental data, and literature sources.

Materials Data and Model Infrastructure

• Design and curate model-ready materials datasets integrating experimental, simulation, and manufacturing data.

• Develop scalable pipelines for data ingestion, feature engineering, and model validation.

• Implement frameworks for active learning and data-efficient modeling.

Autonomous Experimentation and Closed-Loop Optimization

• Collaborate with experimental teams to guide high-value experiments using predictive models.

• Develop approaches for AI-guided experimental design and closed-loop optimization.

• Contribute to the development of autonomous or self-driving materials laboratories.

Cross-Functional Scientific Leadership

• Work closely with subject matter experts including computational scientists, polymer chemists, formulation scientists, process engineers, and analytical experts.

• Translate complex models into actionable insights for product and process development.

• Communicate technical findings through reports, publications, and internal presentati