Corrosion Engineer

N4 Solutions, LLC offers our public and private sector clients the collective intellectual knowledge, expertise, and experience of our company and associates to help our customers evaluate, collaborate, innovate, and create business, technology, and scientific solutions that enable them to accomplish their mission and achieve organizational objectives. With the growth of the company, we are seeking a highly motivated and hard-working corrosion engineering professional to join our team.

The successful candidate will work in a high-paced and rewarding work environment.

• Conduct fundamental and applied corrosion research on metallic alloys, coatings, composites, and other materials used on Navy ships, submarines, aircraft, autonomous systems, shore facilities, and related maritime assets.
• Design, construct, configure, and test cathodic protection systems, including impressed-current and sacrificial-anode systems, for maritime structures and representative test platforms.
• Develop, review, and execute Physical Scale Modeling (PSM) test plans for ship and submarine corrosion-control studies, including test configuration, instrumentation requirements, operating conditions, acceptance criteria, and data-collection methods.
• Prepare and validate instrumentation before intensive test periods, including corrosion sensors, reference electrodes, data logging systems, power supplies, monitoring and control hardware, and associated communications interfaces.
• Stress-test control systems, instrumentation, and data-acquisition configurations prior to and during test execution to identify failure modes, data-quality issues, and test-integrity risks.
• Perform electrochemical testing and analysis, including polarization measurements, impedance spectroscopy, potential/current monitoring, corrosion-rate measurement, and evaluation of cathodic protection behavior.
• Measure, monitor, and quantify corrosion mechanisms, degradation rates, durability, calcareous deposit formation, hydrogen effects, and other material-performance characteristics under Navy-relevant environmental conditions.
• * Plan and conduct seawater, atmospheric, immersion, accelerated-aging, and other environmental exposure experiments to evaluate corrosion performance and protection-system effectiveness.
• Design and evaluate corrosion-monitoring and mitigation instrumentation, sensors, electrical-isolation approaches, tank-inspection systems, underwater ICCP components, wireless devices, and related test hardware.
• Perform corrosion assessments, prognostics, and physical or numerical modeling to predict material degradation, cathodic protection performance, and underwater electromagnetic behavior.
• Analyze experimental datasets using scientific and engineering tools such as MATLAB, Python, COMSOL, OLI Studio, LabVIEW, or equivalent software to identify trends, quantify performance, and validate engineering hypotheses.
• Conduct metallographic, microscopic, chemical, and failure-analysis investigations to characterize corrosion morphology, material condition, degradation mechanisms, and root causes of failure.
• Evaluate the effects of material selection, fabrication, welding, heat treatment, fasteners, crevice geometry, surface condition, and environmental exposure on corrosion behavior and structural integrity.
• Support design and fabrication of scaled models, test fixtures, mockups, piping systems, electrical assemblies, and experimental platforms required for corrosion and cathodic-protection testing.
• Prepare engineering drawings, test procedures, data packages, technical reports, calculations, graphs, and presentations that clearly document test methods, results, conclusions, and technical recommendations.
• Support shipboard, waterfront, shipyard, and field testing as required, including instrumentation setup, inspections, data acquisition, troubleshooting, and post-test analysis.
• Apply applicable Navy, DoD, ASTM, AMPP/NACE, and other technical standards and specifications when planning tests, evaluating corrosion-control systems, and documenting results.
• Maintain rigorous test documentation, configuration control, calibration records, data traceability, and Objective Quality Evidence to support repeatability and technical defensibility of research results.

• Bachelor's degree in Corrosion Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related…