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Sr. Scientist Solid & Fracture Mechanics, Glass

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Date: Apr 30, 2026

Location: Helsinki, FI, 00180

Company: Corning

Requisition Number: 74623

 

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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
  • 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 
  • Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

 

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For our location in Helsinki, Finland, we are looking for a 

 

Sr. Scientist Solid & Fracture Mechanics, Glass

 

Scope of Position:

  • Model new materials, components, and process conditions to understand, predict, and improve product performance and properties.
  • Develop and apply computational, analytical, solid and fracture mechanics modeling tools to gain fundamental insight into underlying physical mechanisms and to support research and new product development.
  • Demonstrate a strong combination of modeling and data analysis skills, with a high level of expertise in both numerical and analytical methods.
  • Possess a strong foundation in solid and fracture mechanics.
  • Collaborate closely within a global research, development, and engineering team.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with experimental, testing and engineering groups on joint projects.
  • Develop, implement, and validate numerical and analytical models against experimental data.
  • Identify failure modes and potential critical challenges for new products and materials.
  • Analyze data, interpret results, and communicate key findings and their impact to project teams through presentations and technical reports.
  • Develop intellectual property by authoring technical reports, scientific publications, and patent disclosures.

Required Skills:

  • Strong foundation in Solid and Fracture Mechanics.
  • Expertise in finite element analysis (Ansys, LS-DYNA).
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office tools for corporate communication and technical documentation.
  • Experience with modeling dynamic problems, material non-linearities, fracture.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills.
  • The individual should be able to translate industrial needs into well-defined modeling problems.

Desired Skills:

  • Programming experience using MATLAB, Python, APDL scripting (Ansys).
  • Familiarity with fractography of brittle materials (glass).
  • Experience with HPC & Linux.
  • Strong knowledge of statistical analysis.

Travel Requirements:

  • Availability for business travel to global Corning locations, as needed.

Hours of work/work schedule/flextime:

  • Hybrid, 40 hr. work week, flextime, full-time position.

Required Education and Experience:

  • Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics or
  • M.S. in Solid Mechanics with 3 to 5 years of relevant industrial experience.

 

 

Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment. To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at accommodations@corning.com.

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