About the company

Foundation 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

• Design, create, and test new, high performance alloys that solve persistent customer materials problems in industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, aerospace, energy, and defense markets.
• Create and execute experimental plans on time and on budget. Collaborate with product, commercial, and manufacturing teams to achieve development goals.
• Work hands-on to innovate through the entire alloy development process:
  • Produce lab scale samples
  • Develop robust processes for near net shape consolidation of powder including additive manufacturing.
  • Design sintering recipes and operate furnaces to densify parts.
  • Prepare and characterize samples using standard and novel metallurgical characterization techniques.
• Analyze experimental data and be able to:
• Describe results and metallurgical mechanisms across the organization. 
• Turn inventions and discoveries into actionable process improvements or saleable new products.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgy, or a related field with 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
• 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.
• Industrial research background with experience:
  • Inventing and developing new products
  • Understanding customer needs and delivering metallurgical solutions
  • Working with commercial and operational teams to move developments from the lab to the customer
• A belief in the importance of communication and a proven ability to communicate with coworkers from the leadership team to the shop floor.
• Expertise in one or more of these technical areas: powder metallurgy, sintering, alloy design, computational materials science, and/or relevant metallurgical characterization methods.

Culture

We 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 Benefits

The 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:

• Meaningful, challenging, impactful work, and opportunities to grow within the company at all levels
• Competitive salary, guaranteed to rise with inflation at a minimum each year
• Equity - People at every level will have an impact, and should benefit from their work
• Unlimited paid vacation, with a very strong expectation that employees take a minimum of 15 days off per year, and a full week off at least once per year
• Flexible working style. Most jobs will require people to be present in person or in office most of the time, but in general we care about what’s getting done, not when or where you’re doing it
• Top tier health, dental and vision insurance with limited employee contributions
• A voice in future benefits. This is the beginning, and we will work together to keep adding new, better ways to provide for everyone in the company