# Research Engineer, Metallurgy

Making the Metals Powering the World Solcoa is building the next generation of American metalmaking, starting with rare earths - the metals of power and motion. We've developed a new chemistry that converts rare earth oxides into high-purity metals - the materials inside every EV, fighter jet, wind turbine, and data center - cleaner, cheaper, and faster than any conventional process. Now we're scaling it to thousands of tonnes of annual production. The Role Own difficult, first-principles R&D that unlocks rare-earth metal production at scale. You will design and execute high-temperature experiments, build and operate custom rigs, extract mechanisms from data, and translate lab breakthroughs into reproducible unit operations for our demo plant. This role is deeply technical and experimental. Pyrometallurgical research: calcination, vacuum/steam distillation, carbothermic/metallothermic reduction, smelting, refining. High-temperature electrochemistry: molten-salt/molten-oxide electrolysis, cell design, anode/cathode materials, current efficiency. Nuclear engineering research: molten-salt chemistries, materials compatibility, graphite/refractory behavior, high-T gas-cooled systems.

- **Id**: 824410
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/solcoa-research-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Alameda, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-09-02T17:28:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2025-09-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T23:22:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 431
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3340
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Materials Science & Nanotechnology, Metals & Metallurgy, Rare Earth Metals

## Company

- **Id**: 720862
- **Name**: Solcoa
- **Domain**: solcoaindustries.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/solcoaindustries>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.643
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 175000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 175000

## Technologies

- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 430

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T13:56:30Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 19; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 19 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.162
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 430
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 175000
- **Is top pay**: no

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