Polymers Application Engineer

About the role

As a Polymers Application Engineer at Cambrium, you will be the senior technical operator across our polymers business. You will work most closely with our customers, ensure that technical issues are resolved through coordinated R&D activity, and own the documentation backbone that takes a working formulation through to a commercial product.

What you'll do

• Work closely with customers to debug product issues, sitting with their technical teams to diagnose performance challenges and design the experiments that resolve them
• Ensure those issues are resolved through coordinated R&D activity, from protocol design through interpretation of results and onward iteration
• Own manufacturing quality and the regulatory documentation backbone, including technical data sheets, certificates of analysis, specifications, safety data sheets, and REACH and CLP inputs
• Collaborate with our business development team to uncover new applications for our polymer technology, acting as the technical co-pilot in commercial conversations and pressure-testing application fit in adjacent markets
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and partners, ensuring effective communication and technical alignment across long-running development programmes

What you'll need

• Degree in polymer engineering, polymer science, or chemical engineering with a clear polymer specialisation, ideally from a programme with a strong practical polymer focus
• 7-12 years of industry experience in polymer applications development, ideally with time at a major polymers group or in a more applied environment such as a specialty compounder or formulator
• Hands-on experience across thermoplastic elastomer or engineering polymer systems, with depth in at least one block copolymer or segmented copolymer family
• Demonstrated track record of owning a customer programme end to end, from the first technical conversation through trials, qualification, and into commercial supply
• Comfortable as the senior technical voice in a customer meeting, including when results are unfavourable and the path forward is uncertain
• Strongly organised, with a natural inclination toward documentation, specification management, and systematic record-keeping that allows a young company to operate to industrial standards
• Working knowledge of European chemical regulation (REACH, CLP) at the level of a senior application engineer
• Practical, hands-on disposition, comfortable rolling up your sleeves to keep a programme moving and thoughtful about cost and resource use in development work

Nice to have

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken; German or French an advantage given our footprint
• Willing to travel approximately 30-40% in the first year to build and maintain relationships with customers and partners across Europe

What they offer

• Employee Stock Options
• Flexible working hours
• Learning & Development Programme
• Gym membership
• 30 days of individual vacation plus up to 5 all-company holidays between 25th December and 1st January
• Regular team events