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As the Vice President Research & Development, you'll lead the scientific strategy that powers our next generation of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) technologies. You'll define the research roadmap, challenge technical assumptions, validate breakthrough concepts, and build the innovations that will shape the future of electric power transmission.\nBased at our global headquarters in Houston, TX, the Vice President Research & Development reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer and serves as the executive leader responsible for the company's research organization. You will establish long-term technology strategy, prioritize research investments, lead multidisciplinary scientific teams, and accelerate the transition of new technologies from concept through commercialization. Working closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Management, and executive leadership, you'll ensure MetOx continues to advance the world's leading HTS technology platform.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnology Strategy & Scientific Leadership\nDefines and executes MetOx's long-term technology strategy to establish global leadership in high-temperature superconducting (HTS) conductor performance, manufacturability, and cost competitiveness.\nDevelops and maintains multi-year technology roadmaps focused on increasing critical current (Ic), engineering current density (Je), in-field performance, manufacturing yield, and production throughput.\nLeads technology development through a first-principles understanding of superconducting materials, thin-film growth, defect engineering, vortex pinning, and process physics.\nIdentifies and prioritizes the highest-impact scientific and engineering challenges, translating them into focused research programs with measurable technical milestones.\nServes as MetOx's senior technical authority on REBCO materials, MOCVD processing, epitaxial thin-film growth, conductor architecture, and superconducting performance.\nAdvises executive leadership on long-range technology investments, innovation strategy, competitive positioning, and emerging technologies.\nAdvanced Materials, Process & Equipment Development\nLeads the development of next-generation MOCVD processes that improve film quality, compositional control, deposition rate, uniformity, reproducibility, manufacturing scalability, and cost.\nDrives scientific understanding of precursor chemistry, gas-phase reactions, transport phenomena, nucleation, epitaxial growth, crystallization kinetics, oxygenation, and defect evolution during film deposition.\nLeads the development of advanced artificial pinning center technologies, defect engineering strategies, strain engineering, multilayer architectures, and nanoscale microstructure optimization to maximize superconducting performance.\nEstablishes quantitative structure-process-property relationships governing critical current density, engineering current density, in-field performance, mechanical reliability, and long-length uniformity.\nDrives experimental, computational, and analytical approaches that replace empirical process development with predictive, science-based process optimization.\nLeads the design and development of next-generation MOCVD reactor platforms, deposition hardware, and process equipment to improve process control, throughput, uniformity, reliability, and manufacturing efficiency.\nPartners with Equipment Engineering to define reactor architecture, gas delivery systems, precursor delivery, thermal management, exhaust systems, and process control technologies for future manufacturing platforms.\nDevelops advanced reaction diagnostics and in situ metrology capabilities to understand precursor decomposition, gas-phase chemistry, film growth dynamics, defect formation, and process stability.\nIntegrates advanced diagnostics, modeling, machine learning, and digital process models to accelerate technology development and establish predictive process control.\nEvaluates emerging materials, deposition technologies, characterization methods, and analytical tools to strengthen MetOx's technology leadership.\nManufacturing Technology & Commercialization\nPartners with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations to transition laboratory innovations into robust, repeatable, high-volume manufacturing processes.\nDevelops scalable manufacturing processes capable of producing world-class HTS conductors with industry-leading consistency and yield.\nEstablishes technology readiness levels, process qualification criteria, and manufacturing validation methodologies.\nDrives continuous improvement of process capability, statistical process control, reliability, and manufacturing robustness.\nLeads technical initiatives that establish record-setting critical current, engineering current density, and magnetic field performance while maintaining commercial manufacturability.\nLeverages large manufacturing datasets to identify subtle physical signals, optimize process performance, and accelerate data-driven decision-making using advanced statistical methods, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.\nInnovation & Intellectual Property\nBuilds and executes MetOx's intellectual property strategy for superconducting materials, deposition processes, reactor technologies, and conductor architectures.\nIdentifies, develops, and protects patentable innovations that strengthen MetOx's competitive advantage.\nMonitors global scientific and competitive developments in superconductors, semiconductor manufacturing, advanced materials, and thin-film deposition technologies.\nScientific Leadership & Organizational Development\nBuilds, mentors, and leads a world-class multidisciplinary organization of scientists and engineers specializing in superconductivity, materials science, chemistry, physics, thin films, process engineering, characterization, modeling, and equipment development.\nFosters a culture of scientific rigor, first-principles thinking, disciplined experimentation, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.\nEngages directly in technical problem solving, scientific review, data interpretation, hypothesis development, and technology direction.\nEstablishes a science-based technology development framework that integrates advanced characterization, reaction diagnostics, computational modeling, and statistically designed experimentation to accelerate learning and innovation.\nRecruits, develops, and retains exceptional technical talent while strengthening MetOx's long-term scientific capabilities.\nExecutive & External Leadership\nRepresents MetOx as a recognized technology leader with customers, strategic partners, universities, national laboratories, investors, and government agencies.\nBuilds strategic collaborations that accelerate technology development and commercialization.\nCommunicates technology strategy, research progress, and innovation priorities to executive leadership, the Board of Directors, customers, and external stakeholders.\nServes as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology direction, research investments, and long-term competitive strategy.\nOther duties as assigned.\nMinimum Qualifications\nPh.D. in Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.\n15+ years of progressive technical leadership in superconductors, semiconductor thin films, advanced materials, or related deposition technologies.\nDeep expertise in epitaxial thin-film growth using MOCVD or closely related vapor deposition technologies.\nDemonstrated expertise in one or more of the following: superconducting materials, crystallography, defect engineering, thin-film microstructure, or structure-property relationships.\nProven success developing next-generation deposition processes from scientific concept through commercial manufacturing.\nExperience designing or significantly improving advanced deposition equipment and manufacturing processes.\nDemonstrated ability to translate first-principles scientific understanding into commercially scalable manufacturing technologies.\nStrong record of patents, publications, and technology commercialization.\nExperience leading multidisciplinary scientific and engineering organizations.\nPreferred Qualifications\nInternationally recognized technical leadership in REBCO coated conductors, HTS materials, or advanced epitaxial thin films.\nDemonstrated expertise in artificial pinning center development and vortex pinning optimization.\nExperience designing MOCVD reactors, deposition systems, precursor delivery hardware, or advanced process equipment.\nExpertise in reaction diagnostics, in situ metrology, and advanced process monitoring techniques.\nExperience with computational modeling of thin-film growth, reaction kinetics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and transport phenomena.\nExperience with advanced characterization techniques including TEM, STEM, SEM, XRD, AFM, SIMS, EBSD, Raman spectroscopy, and related analytical methods.\nExperience leading federally funded research programs (DOE, ARPA-E, DARPA, NSF, or similar).\nExperience scaling advanced materials technologies from laboratory development through commercial production. \nKnowledge, Skills, & Abilities: \nStrategic technology planning and multi-year roadmap development.\nScientific method, hypothesis generation, experimental design, and data-driven decision making.\nTechnology commercialization and manufacturing scale-up.\nExecutive leadership across multidisciplinary scientific and engineering organizations.\nResearch portfolio management, investment prioritization, and resource allocation.\nIntellectual property strategy and innovation management.\nExecutive communication, 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