Junior Chemical/Process Engineer

Attolas Technologies Inc. is seeking an early-career chemical/process engineer or chemist to design, develop, and operate chemical processes that transform raw materials into high-purity inorganic compounds. This onsite role in Raleigh, NC combines bench-scale work, scale-up planning, safety review, and hands-on troubleshooting in the lab.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute processes that convert raw materials into high-purity inorganic compounds.
• Perform bench-scale synthesis and purification, including precipitation, crystallization, drying, and recovery, then scale work into repeatable batch processes.
• Maintain tight purity specifications through contamination control and rigorous material accounting, with yield tracked at the gram level.
• Work safely with reactive and hazardous materials, including writing SOPs, leading hazard reviews, and managing material compatibility.
• Use analytical methods and partner with outside labs to verify that products meet specification.
• Create process models using mass and energy balances, reaction stoichiometry, and yield calculations.
• Support techno-economic analysis by evaluating unit production cost and identifying key cost drivers.
• Operate laboratory equipment hands-on, including gloveboxes and inert-atmosphere systems, and troubleshoot processes directly.

Requirements

• A degree in chemical engineering, chemistry, or a related field, with 0–4 years of experience.
• Hands-on synthesis or lab experience, ideally in inorganic chemistry, along with a strong safety mindset.
• Strong fundamentals in thermodynamics and reaction engineering, with the ability to solve problems from first principles.
• Careful, meticulous laboratory practice and the discipline to keep documentation that others could reproduce.
• Comfort working with Python, MATLAB, Excel, or similar tools for modeling and data analysis.
• Self-motivation to identify and complete necessary work.
• Comfort working at a startup pace.

Tools and Technologies

• Python
• MATLAB
• Excel

Compensation and Benefits

Salary: USD 80,000 to 90,800 per year plus stock in the company.

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Stock in the company

Location and Travel

• Onsite role based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• Travel may be required to other company and supplier sites.
• Some scheduling periods may require temporary location stays lasting weeks to months.

Additional Considerations

• Experience with air-sensitive or glovebox work
• Experience handling highly hazardous reagents
• Experience with high-purity or trace-metals work
• Experience with process scale-up

Education

Degree requirement: Degree in chemical engineering, chemistry or a related field.