Senior Applications Engineer - Chemical Manufacturing
New York, USA
Listed on 2026-02-28
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Engineering
Process Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Materials Engineer
Senior Applications Engineer - Chemical Manufacturing
Date: Feb 20, 2026
Location: Corning, NY, US, 14831 North Carolina, NC, US New York, NY, US Pennsylvania, PA, US
Company: Corning
Requisition Number:73462
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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, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with:
- Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
- Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
- Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
- Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences
- Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation
Corning Advanced-Flow Reactor™ (AFR) is a global leader in end-to-end flow chemical processing for pharma, fine chemicals, agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and high-performance materials industries. AFR technology is changing the way chemicals are produced, enabling more efficient and safer processing.
AFR is looking for an application engineer for the North American market. Primary technical contact between the customer and Corning, the Application Engineer ensures a smooth match between the customer needs and the technical offer provided by Corning (products, services and technical support)
Key Responsibilities- Understand current and prospective customers application and products, value proposition and needs. Align their needs with Corning technical capabilities.
- Sales support (technical visit on customer site, product presentation, technical offer, attending trade shows as visitor or exhibitor, writing and contribution to scientific research papers).
- FAT/SAT, Installation / education & training / commissioning & starting the reactors & dosing lines.
- Support of the customer on paperwork and procedures:
Help designing of IQ/OQ plan & development of FAT/SAT. - Support debugging and ramping manufacturing to expected performance. Collect customer feed-back and fix issues.
- Connection between the customer requirements and the different internal specialists (Engineering department, R&D, sales, sales support, quality) to ensure a seamless coordination
- Share the information gathered from the customer/on-site to the relevant services, including insights for AFR product and offering roadmap.
- Contribution to the elaboration of procedure manual for the equipment.
- Developing and writing Application notes to support customers.
- Minimum BS degree in Chemical Engineering
- At least 3 years of experience in a chemical engineering role, with a strong practical experimental experience
- Chemical engineering with a concentration on reaction, fluid flow and heat transfer
- Experience with safety planning (Safety assessment, plan, etc….)
- Being able to work autonomously and proactively at customer sites
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making, rigorous and well-organized
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills in a multicultural environment
- Hands on technical problem-solving skills
- Flexibility/adaptability to unexpected situations/ behavior/ working subject
- Resilient and copes well with stressful situations
- Strong Leadership and negotiation skills
- Travel Requirements:
Typically >75% - Experience in…
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