Materials Engineer Spring 2026 Co-op
Found EnergyBoston, Massachusetts
Internship
Posted November 5, 2025
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Job Description
This internship involves researching and developing new materials and processes to improve hydrogen generation systems for clean energy applications, including designing experiments, analyzing data, and supporting scale-up efforts in a fast-growing clean energy company.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, execute, and document experiments related to materials and processes for fuel manufacturing and system performance.
- Scale-up and optimize subsystems within the fuel activation process.
- Generate and analyze quality control data for materials and feedstocks.
- Develop and improve SOPs and maintain laboratory safety and hygiene protocols.
- Invent and test new material compositions and chemical systems.
- Identify and address system performance challenges through creative solutions.
- Present experimental results and collaborate with technical teams.
- Maintain and enhance laboratory experimental and analytical capabilities.
Requirements
- Pursuing education in chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, or related fields
- Experience in laboratory experiments following best practices and SOPs
- Ability to operate bench-scale and prototype-scale reactors
- Capability to generate quality control data of materials and improve quality control practices
- Experience testing customer-provided and internally developed materials for quality assurance
- Ability to document observations in a detailed and careful manner
- Skill in synthesizing data to determine trends, correlations, and underlying mechanisms
- Ability to present results and conclusions to technical teams
- Proficiency in developing and maintaining SOP documentation for experimental procedures and prototype systems
- Participation in chemical hygiene and safety protocols and practices
- Ability to invent new material compositions and chemical systems
- Proactive identification and addressing of challenges in system performance
- Design and testing of creative solutions to system challenges
- Ability to develop and improve experimental and analytical capabilities of the lab
- Experience in executing experiments and scaling up or optimizing subsystems in chemical processes
- Experience in chemical, materials, and metallurgical laboratory work
- Hands-on laboratory experience with handling hazardous chemicals such as acids, bases, and other reactive substances
- Experience with high temperature heat treatments, annealing, and tempering processes
- Experience in experimental design and statistical data analysis
- Familiarity with apparatus fixture design and assembly
- Knowledge of chemical separation and purification processes, solid-liquid separation, and filtration
- Experience with hydrogen handling and safety equipment, including fuel cells
- Familiarity with software languages such as Python, C++, MATLAB, etc.
- Knowledge of sensor integration and data acquisition systems
- Understanding of process engineering principles
- Experience with electrodeposition, electrochemistry, and corrosion processes
- Knowledge of electrochemistry in aqueous, molten salt, and high-temperature environments
- Experience with fuel cell or battery chemistry
- Experience with fluid and gas handling systems, including safety and compliance
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range (not specified in the posting)
Work schedule: 6-month co-op duration from January to June
Work environment perks: participation in chemical hygiene and safety protocols, opportunity to work on innovative clean energy projects, collaborative team environment
Additional benefits: opportunities for professional development in experimental design, data analysis, and process engineering; involvement in meaningful climate change mitigation efforts; potential for growth within a pioneering clean energy company
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