Senior Materials Engineer

Company Description

Red Sea Farms offers products and services designed to help farmers grow food
sustainably using fewer resources in water-scarce areas. We envision a world
where saltwater and sunlight are used to grow healthy food sustainably and
reduce food insecurity around the world in harsh environments. We care about
the planet just as much as we care about people. In turn, Red Sea Farms
combines impact with innovation through saltwater and sunlight-based
agriculture products, systems, and services that are environmentally and
economically sustainable and help support the nutritional needs of water-
scarce populations.
We're looking for talented and experienced individuals who have a desire to
change the way people think about food and make a positive impact in the
world.

Job Description

Do you want to contribute to a sustainable future? Red Sea Farms (RSF), a fast
growing scaleup AgTech company, is seeking a hardworking optical materials
engineer to lead the overall investigation on the development of advanced
materials and their integration to Red Sea Farm's CEA (controlled environment
agriculture) cooling technologies. You will work with both suppliers and a
diverse internal tech team to craft the advanced materials for sheet and panel
technologies used in RSF tech. As a key member of a multi-disciplinary and
cross organizational tech team, you will work closely with software, product,
& opto-mechanical engineers, interface with the management team and provide
direction to technical leads.
We work in a fast-paced technology environment and require everyone to be
highly self-motivated. A successful candidate needs to be a flexible thinker,
have interpersonal and excellent communication/documentation skills, ability
to collaboratively and responsively focus on key priorities based on new
information and product development timeline. The person in charge should also
have high energy and excitement to contribute to cutting-edge technologies
that improves Red Sea Farms' performance and goal achievement.

Qualifications
*
Strong technical background on optics, polymeric materials and associated
technologies
* In-depth knowledge of transmission, scattering, refraction, diffraction and optical characterization
* Strong experience in design of experiments and corresponding data analysis
* Knowledge in polymer sheet and panel technologies, polymer processing, polymer sheet and panel technologies.
* Creativity and out-of-the box thinking in solving problems.
* Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate a multi-functional team
Preferred Additional Qualifications:
* Minimum of a master's degree in Materials Engineering, Physics, Optics or related field.
* Proven track record leading engineering teams through the whole development cycle
* Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product development from concept to production
* Experience leading domestic and international vendors

Additional Information

Primary Responsibilities
The role 's primary responsibilities are listed but not limited to the below:
* Lead and oversee the development of our CEA passive cooling technologies.
* Take total ownership to drive technologies from R&D to implementation on real products with multi-functional teams
* Work with vendors to identify and modify key materials that can enable new optical technologies for cooling
* Develop new contributions and ideas in an interdisciplinary program team
* Conduct engineering analyses and evaluation of optical and opto-mechanical systems
* Provide technical solutions to various optics related problems
* Provide thorough documentation of work performed
* Develop plans and procedures for specifications & fabrication of components, and for assembly, test, and integration of optical systems, balancing cost & manufacturability
* Serve as technical interface to suppliers and manufacturers
* Manage a development team
* Reporting to senior level