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.

The Corrosion Engineer will serve as a Research and Development (R&D) technical leader supporting NRL. The position focuses on corrosion prevention and control for Navy maritime assets through applied research, physical and numerical modeling, cathodic protection system development, instrumentation, test and evaluation, and technology transition. The successful candidate will lead and coordinate complex corrosion R&D activities from test-plan development through execution, data analysis, reporting, and fleet-relevant application while ensuring technical integrity, Objective Quality Evidence (OQE), and alignment with Navy mission and sponsored-program objectives.

• Provide senior R&D management and technical leadership for corrosion science and engineering programs supporting Navy ships, submarines, marine structures, and other war fighting platforms.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee fundamental and applied studies to identify, assess, measure, monitor, and mitigate corrosion and materials degradation in laboratory, seawater, waterfront, shipboard, and other Navy-relevant environments.
• Lead the design, construction, evaluation, and testing of cathodic protection systems used to protect maritime assets, including impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) systems, sacrificial anodes, reference cells, electrical isolation, monitoring, and control components.
• Develop, review, and vet test plans for Physical Scale Modeling (PSM) of ship and submarine corrosion-control systems, ensuring test objectives, configurations, instrumentation, controls, data requirements, and acceptance criteria are technically sound.
• Participate in PSM test execution, including setup, system checkout, data collection, troubleshooting, test monitoring, data analysis, interpretation of results, and preparation of technical reports and recommendations.
• Validate instrumentation prior to and during intensive test periods, including corrosion sensors, data-logging equipment, monitoring and control instrumentation, spectrum analyzers, potentiostat/galvanostats, and associated measurement systems.
• Stress-test control systems, instrumentation interfaces, data-acquisition systems, and experimental configurations before and during test events to identify vulnerabilities and assure test integrity, repeatability, and reliable data capture.
• Develop and apply physical and numerical models to evaluate corrosion behavior, cathodic protection performance, underwater electromagnetic properties, prognostics, and corrosion-control system effectiveness.
• Design and oversee experiments that characterize corrosion mechanisms, corrosion rates, durability, material properties, calcareous deposits, hydrogen effects, degradation mechanisms, and related electrochemical or mechanical behavior.
• Support the design and prototyping of corrosion assessment and mitigation technologies, including sensors, monitoring systems, tank inspection systems, wireless devices, test platforms, and associated software or analytical tools.
• Evaluate corrosion performance of metallic alloys, composites, ceramics, polymers, organic and inorganic coatings, and other materials used in Navy…