Senior Materials Scientist / Engineer

About the job

Together with the team of technicians, engineers and scientists in the Product Engineering team you will be responsible to drive scientific and technological advancement in the field of luminescent (nano)materials and LEDs. You will focus on optimizing our materials and technologies to working prototypes and commercial readiness and will contribute to writing these innovations down in patent applications and scientific publications.

What are you going to do?

• Optimize our materials and technologies to working prototypes and commercial readiness, with a focus on rare-earth doped systems.
• Advanced characterization and analysis of materials produced by you, your colleagues, or external partners. This includes both structural and optical properties.
• Stay up to date with scientific progress and translate new insights to solutions that fit our fields of application.
• Collaborate with our internal (lab) staff and external researchers. Share ideas and results, spark creativity and drill down on fundamental problems.
• Your work will lead to new intellectual property and scientific breakthroughs. You will thus contribute to writing patents, scientific papers, conference presentations, and grant proposals.

Is it you we're looking for?

• A PhD degree in Chemistry / Materials Science / Physics or equivalent.
• Preferably > 5 years working experience on phosphor development in an industrial environment. If you have less experience you are also welcome to apply.
• Hands on experience in the field of luminescent materials synthesis and characterization (e.g. electron microscopy, XRD, physisorption, (time resolved) optical spectroscopy, QY measurements). Experience with nanomaterials would be an advantage.
• Track record in writing scientific publications and presenting results to a professional audience.

Also important, you:

• Fit in a start-up/scale-up working environment.
• Are result driven and a strong drive to work towards set goals.
• Have ability to organize tasks to effectively execute project deliverables and timelines.
• Are clear, efficient communication skills. Fluent in English.
• Are creative and eager to learn.
• Are a good fit to a young and dynamic team.

What we offer

• A dynamic and young organization full of ambition.
• Flexible working culture with the opportunity to work from home when possible.
• Multicultural environment, we can offer support with visa arrangements.
• Personal growth and development: we will support you on developing to and achieving your career goals with one-on-one coaching and trainings designed for your personal ambitions.
• Great location at Amsterdam Science Park, surrounded by other young companies and research institutes.
• Connectivity: It is a 5-minute walk to the nearest train station, Amsterdam Science Park, and 10 minutes by bus to the larger station Amsterdam Amstel.
• A market conform salary in line with the experience.

About us

Working for Seaborough, a Dutch clean-tech scale-up, gives the opportunity to positively contribute to revolutionize the lighting industry by inventing and developing proprietary technologies, commercializing those by patenting and licensing, and turn those into applications and products together with leading industry partners. More specifically, Seaborough targets to create maximum value out of intellectual property in the area of optical (nano)materials for different fields of applications, such as solid state lighting. Seaborough has a divers team and offers a dynamic, informal and respectful working environment and teams up with best-in-class experts around the world. Seaborough is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, a city recognized to be one of Europe’s hotspots when it comes to a fruitful start-up business environment. Seaborough started in 2013 and is backed by the Dutch private equity firm Momentum Capital, which focuses on clean-tech companies that have the potential to challenge the existing and set the new standard in their respective areas of business. Momentum Capital is determined to contribute to the world’s climate goals set by the Paris agreement.

Interested?

We'd like to hear from you!

Please contact Dr. Atul Sontakke (Director - Product Engineering) a.sontakke@seaborough.com for more information or to apply.