KA Group | Knight Auto
2 months ago
Materials Scientist
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Company information
- Company
- KA Group | Knight Auto
- Location
- Singapore Singapore
- Posted
- 2 months ago
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support new product, system design, and material improvement initiatives to meet customer and business requirements.
- Apply material science and chemical engineering knowledge to solve technical challenges and improve product performance.
- Identify new product-to-market and application opportunities based on market trends, customer roadmaps, and technology developments.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders on product marketing, product launch, and successful go-to-market campaigns.
- Support business case development, cost evaluation, budgeting, and other operational processes required for business sustainability and improvement.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Operations, Quality, Sales, Product Marketing, customers, and external vendors.
- Provide technical input and recommendations on materials, surface treatment, coating, process controls, and failure analysis matters.
Requirements
- Degree in Engineering, Science, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, preferably in the semiconductor industry.
- Strong hands-on experience in materials, chemistry, surface engineering, coating, or related manufacturing processes.
- Experience in material selection and qualification for ferrous alloys, non-ferrous materials, and engineering plastics, including stainless steel, aluminium, titanium alloys, PEEK, PI, or equivalent materials.
- Familiar with material requirements for high vacuum, plasma environments, extreme temperatures, and corrosive chemistries such as halogens, acids, bases, solvents, and cleaning chemicals.
- Experience in evaluating chemical and elastomer compatibility, including materials such as Viton and other engineering polymers used in semiconductor or process equipment applications.
- Knowledge of surface engineering, electroplating, and coating processes such as nickel plating, electroless nickel plating, PVD, CVD, sputtering, evaporation, or arc deposition.
- Able to define and troubleshoot process controls relating to plating adhesion, coating defects, porosity, thickness uniformity, vacuum levels, gas flow, deposition rate, temperature, and related parameters.
- Experience working with CNC machining vendors on material-specific requirements, including tool selection, cutting fluids, residual stress management, surface finish, heat treatment, annealing, stress relief, passivation, and cleaning.
- Familiar with statistical process control and material acceptance criteria such as tensile strength, hardness, grain size, porosity, and surface finish requirements.
- Experience in failure analysis and root cause investigation relating to corrosion, fatigue, wear, chemical attack, hydrogen embrittlement, galvanic corrosion, creep, or related material failure modes.
- Familiar with analytical and testing methods such as SEM/EDS, FTIR, DSC, optical microscopy, hardness testing, salt spray testing, or equivalent techniques.
- Strong analytical skills with creative thinking and problem-solving ability, supported by knowledge of market trends, leading technologies, and industry practices.
- Exposure to international or regional customers and stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to engage stakeholders from diverse backgrounds.
- Effective communication in English. Knowledge of other Asian languages will be an advantage.
- Willingness to travel on short or long notice, as required by business needs.
- Resilient and adaptable in a VUCA business environment.
Required skills
- sales
- english
- travel
- surface treatment
- product development
- engineering
- quality
- communication skills
- operations
- problem-solving
- analytical skills
- budgeting
- chemistry
- materials engineering
- presentation skills
- stainless steel
- materials
- cross-functional teams
- market trends
- manufacturing processes
- science
- cnc machining
- chemical engineering
- temperature
- surface finish
- peek
- pi
- failure analysis
- heat treatment
- stakeholders
- coating
- material selection
- product marketing
- evaporation
- product performance
- industry practices
- aluminum
- product launch
- creative thinking
- go-to-market
- technical challenges
- materials science
- business requirements
- statistical process control
- cvd
- pvd
- customer requirements
- operational processes
- process equipment
- ftir
- cost evaluation
- process controls
- dsc
- corrosion
- root cause investigation
- business case
- acids
- semiconductor industry
- international customers
- fatigue
- solvents
- wear
- external vendors
- nickel plating
- tool selection
- extreme temperatures
- degree in engineering
- non-ferrous materials
- coating defects
- cleaning chemicals
- chemical compatibility
- engineering plastics
- electroplating
- optical microscopy
- hydrogen embrittlement
- asian languages
- bases
- passivation
- regional customers
- sem/eds
- material qualification
- technology developments
- surface engineering
- porosity
- material improvement
- hardness testing
- tensile strength
- ferrous alloys
- titanium alloys
- high vacuum
- plasma environments
- corrosive chemistries
- halogens
- elastomer compatibility
- viton
- electroless nickel plating
- sputtering
- arc deposition
- plating adhesion
- thickness uniformity
- vacuum levels
- gas flow
- deposition rate
- cutting fluids
- residual stress management
- annealing
- stress relief
- material acceptance criteria
- hardness
- grain size
- chemical attack
- galvanic corrosion
- creep
- salt spray testing
- leading technologies
- vuca
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