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As a science and innovation company, we believe that diverse teams are stronger teams. We are committed to fostering a culture of curiosity and courage, where you can grow your career with a company that has innovation in its DNA. Founded on creating real-world impact to enable a better future, we strive to provide an open, collaborative culture where diversity of thought is encouraged and respected. Hear from our employees about what it's like working at Avery Dennison. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.\nBenefits\nAt Avery Dennison, some of the great benefits we provide are:\nInclusive Care: Primary and specialty care from a provider with LGBTQ+ experience.\n\n401(k) Plan: You receive an automatic contribution of 3% of eligible pay (even if you contribute $0) plus a matching contribution of 50% on the first 7% of eligible pay you contribute.\n\nPaid Parental Leave: Your salary is 100% paid during your approved parental leave of absence as a biological, adoptive, and/or foster parent.\n\nPaid Time Off: We offer a generous vacation program that varies based upon your experience and position within Avery Dennison.\n\n About the role\nAvery Dennison is seeking a highly creative, scientifically rigorous Senior Materials Scientist to augment the understanding and development of silicone and non-silicone based release systems, acrylic pressure sensitive adhesives, and other materials technologies critical to our pressure sensitive and functional laminate platforms. In this role, you will work at the intersection of polymer chemistry, physics, interface science, and AI/ML-enabled materials development to advance our scientific understanding. You will be instrumental in transforming how we develop materials in R&D to accelerate our innovation trajectories and translate scientific concepts into actionable, practical technology solutions for our global manufacturing footprint.\nKey Responsibilities\nOn-site\n\nDrive fundamental understanding and insights of complex materials and phenomena, including silicone and non-silicone release coatings, polymeric adhesives, gels, colloids, and multi-layer laminates.\n\nConceive and develop new material paradigms and translate fundamental scientific understanding into practical, scalable materials, process solutions, and differentiated products.\n\nIdentify and drive appropriate experimentation and/or modeling approaches to construct sound scientific structure-property-process-performance fundamentals.\n\nWork with cross-functional teams to translate concepts to reality and construct careful experiments to prove or disprove hypotheses by blending scientifically driven experimentation with predictive computational insights.\n\nEstablish the scientific and experimental foundation for autonomous self-driving laboratory capabilities by connecting automated high-throughput experimentation, scientific databases, predictive models, and human scientific judgement.\n\n Qualifications\nPhD in Polymer or Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or a closely-related discipline.\n\nMinimum of 7 years of direct industrial R&D experience in developing novel materials paradigms with demonstrated expertise in polymer science, coatings, or related fields.\n\nStrong ability to connect materials structure, formulation, processing, properties and performance through rigorous scientific reasoning and independent experimentation.\n\nPrior experience with the use of automated high-throughput experimentation, robotics, self-driving autonomous laboratory concepts, or developing model-ready scientific databases is highly desirable.\n\nIndustrial R&D experience with silicone release coatings, release liners, silicone formulations or related technologies is highly preferred.\n\n Pay Transparency\nThe salary range for this position is $120,000 - $160,000 / year.\nThe hiring base salary range above represents what Avery Dennison reasonably expects to pay for this position as of the date of this posting. Actual salaries will vary within the range, and in some circumstances may be above or below the range, based on various factors including but not limited to a candidate’s relevant skills, experience, education and training, and location, as well as the job scope and complexity, responsibilities, and regular and/or necessary travel required for the position, which may change depending on the candidate pool. Avery Dennison reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nAvery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected status.\nReasonable Accommodations Notice\nIf you require accommodations to view or apply for a job, alternative methods are available to submit an application. 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