Engineer, Metallurgy

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Corning’s businesses are ever-evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets. We are changing the world with:

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
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• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation
• Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

The Engineer, Metallurgy functions as a metallurgical specialist supporting projects across all stages of innovation for Corning’s businesses. This role provides technical solutions to complex materials-related process and product challenges through laboratory testing, production experiments, failure analysis, and cross-functional collaboration. The position works across laboratory and manufacturing environments to develop fundamental understanding, evaluate potential solutions, and support business needs through strong technical problem solving and metallurgical expertise.

This role is designed for an early-career, high-potential engineer who is interested in building long-term metallurgical depth within Corning’s technical organization.

• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult materials-related process and product problems
• Work independently under general direction to determine and develop approaches to technical solutions
• Design and execute laboratory tests, simulations, and production experiments to build fundamental understanding, evaluate potential solutions, and resolve materials-related issues
• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, plant personnel, and laboratory staff to support project execution and technical problem solving
• Conduct failure analyses to determine root cause and develop, test, and recommend effective long-term solutions
• Develop and write metal specifications
• Identify, select, and qualify vendors
• Support projects across both laboratory and manufacturing environments
• Manage multiple projects and adapt to changing business and technical priorities
• Build technical understanding through formal training, project exposure, and collaboration across the broader metallurgical and materials engineering organization
• Support business needs through domestic travel and occasional international travel as required

• Bachelor’s degree in a materials-related field, preferably Metallurgy
• 0 to 2 years of relevant metal or materials development, engineering, or processing experience
• Broad metallurgical knowledge, including understanding of metals and alloys, physical and chemical metallurgy, and…