Sr Scientist, Inkjet – Billerica, MA

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow’s needs.

Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

If you do not meet every requirement, or your experience is slightly different that what we have listed, we still encourage you to apply! Your Role at Cabot:

Cabot has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Scientist to join our fast-moving Inkjet team. This independent technical leader will drive complex, cross-functional projects that translate materials science into differentiated products, processes, and customer value. The role combines rigorous experimentation, mechanistic thinking, advanced data analysis, and practical project leadership across particle design, surface and interfacial chemistry, dispersion, formulation, rheology, transport, and print-system performance.

Carbon black expertise is highly desirable. Working closely with R&D, Marketing, Commercial, Manufacturing, and key customers, the Senior Scientist will shape technical direction and accelerate development using modeling, AI, machine learning, high-throughput experimentation, automation, and advanced analytics. Are you a positive, curious, and motivated technical professional who enjoys bringing structure to complex, cross-functional projects? Can you work directly with customers and internal partners to connect scientific understanding with practical product, process, or application value?

Are you eager to combine strong materials science with emerging AI, machine learning, automation, and high-throughput tools? If so, please consider the opportunity we have for you to join our team! How You’ll Make an Impact:
Independently leads and delivers projects of moderate to high complexity and scope that address important technical and commercial needs in materials, products, processes, and applications.

Works with Technology management and cross-functional partners to define clear project objectives, scope, milestones, decision points, resource needs, risks, and deliverables aligned with business priorities.

Plans, schedules, coordinates, and executes detailed phases of complex projects, using sound project management practices and maintaining current project documentation.

Sets hypotheses and develops technical approaches using literature, mechanistic understanding, experimentation, modeling, and theory; adapts or introduces methods as needed to advance learning.

Generates, organizes, and interprets data using experimental design, advanced statistical analysis, and appropriate digital tools to distinguish facts from assumptions, draw conclusions, and make actionable recommendations.

Applies and helps advance AI, machine learning, high-throughput experimentation, laboratory automation, and data-management approaches to accelerate development and improve the quality of technical decisions.

Leads or contributes to projects involving carbon black, connecting particle properties, surface chemistry, structure, morphology, dispersion behavior, and relevant manufacturing variables to product and application performance.

Builds productive relationships with key customers and external partners; collaborates closely to understand needs, design technical programs, present results,…