Senior Materials Scientist

Job Title

Senior Materials Scientist

Job Description

The Senior Materials Scientist will utilize materials and compliance expertise in working with Research & Development (R&D) teams to help ensure product safety and design the best Sleep & Respiratory Care (S&RC) products for our customers.

Your role:

• Lead efforts in assessing biocompatibility for product development and design changes, ensuring alignment with compliance and standards. Collaborate with development teams to develop and review complete and testable biocompatibility and materials-based product requirements.

• Oversee materials testing and provide expertise in data analysis, drawing conclusions, and enhancing testing methods. Plan and execute long-term accelerated aging studies to assess material stability.

• Guide the selection of new materials, manufacturing techniques, finishing technologies, and reprocessing methods to enable safe and innovative product designs. Develop strategies to investigate material failures and implement corrective actions with project teams.

• Mentor junior team members on technical aspects, including testing, safety assessments, and materials science theory. Drive long-term competence development in materials science at S&RC.

• Coordinate formal technical reviews and collaborate cross-functionally with Core R&D/Advanced Development (AD) and broader S&RC teams. Communicate effectively with internal and external test labs and provide weekly project status reports.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 5+ years of hands-on experience with laboratory and materials testing techniques, product or process development, materials characterization, and system integration of materials with a Bachelor's or 3+ years of experience with a Master's degree or 0+ years of experience with a Ph.D.

• You have strong root cause analysis experience and the ability to perform failure mode investigations to drive the CAPA process. You can apply ISO 10993, ISO 18562, and other standards for materials analysis and risk assessments, with knowledge of FDA, EU MDR and global medical device regulations, requirements, and standards (preferred).

• You have detailed experience analyzing chemical and physical properties of materials, for regulatory submissions, and drawing scientific conclusions (preferred).

• You have a Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent. A Ph.D. is preferred.

• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in New Kensington, PA is $99,000