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# Senior/Chief Scientist

- **Company:** Hollingsworth LLC
- **Location:** Floyd, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Python (Programming Language)
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9f8809b79bbe7e26

## About the Role

* PhD in STEM category - Chemical, Mechanical, Material sciences, and other porous media related disciplines or BS/MS degrees with equivalent work experience
 * A track record of originating research and successful commercialization,
 * First-author publications in peer-reviewed journals and/or Named inventorship (not just assignee)
 * 10+ years of product development experience, * Cross-domain literacy across the porous media landscape. Deep expertise in one material class is expected;
 * Computational and AI fluency: proficiency in design of experiments and Bayesian optimization (required); Python or equivalent scripting for data analysis (strongly preferred); familiarity with high-throughput experimentation platforms or closed-loop optimization systems (a real differentiator).
 * An active, generative external scientific network - not passive literature consumption. Conference participation, invited presentations, peer-review activity, or academic collaborations.
 * The intellectual disposition to propose ideas that contradict current product logic and defend them with data.
 * Previous technology scouting experience

## Description

Hollingsworth & Vose is creating a dedicated scientific role for a pioneer researcher: someone who works best at the frontier of a field, defines their own questions, and is energized by the absence of a roadmap. Your mandate is to identify, investigate, and de-risk platform-level opportunities in porous media - materials and mechanisms that could define entirely new product categories for H&V. You will report directly to senior R&D leadership, operating with genuine scientific autonomy. Title depends on experience and track record in the industry., * Scan the porous media landscape - nonwovens, polymer membranes, MOFs, zeolites, aerogels, other fibrous structures - for convergence zones and white-space opportunities invisible from within a single material class.

 * Formulate original research hypotheses, design experiments to de-risk them, and execute at TRL 1-3 with full scientific independence.
 * Build and maintain an active presence in the external scientific community: publish, present, collaborate with academic partners, and serve as H&V's scientific antenna in your domain.
 * Apply computational and AI-assisted tools - high-throughput experimentation, design of experiments, Bayesian optimization - to accelerate discovery cycles.
 * Communicate findings clearly to senior R&D and executive leadership: what you found, what it means, and - just as importantly - what you killed and why.
 * Identify opportunities to connect emerging platform concepts to H&V's existing technical and manufacturing capabilities where genuine synergy exists.
 * Lead or aid in the commercialization of platform concepts


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