Senior Engineer - Materials

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

• Technical missions 

• In relation with Laboratory in France, analyse job request and define analysis protocol

• Select appropriate equipment and laboratory to perform analysis

• Achieve/Manage Sample preparation: 

  • cutting, 

  • resin, 

  • polishing : down to 3µm diamond, and colloidal silica solution

  • metallization, plasma deposition: Gold, Palladium, Carbon….

  • Reveal microstructure: Chemical delineation (Adler attack solution) 

• Pilot macroscopic inspection with the selected laboratory: Binocular analysis, Optical microscopy analysis, Scanning electron microscopy and so on

• Pilot microscopic analysis with the selected laboratory: Electron Dispersive Spectroscopy elemental chemical analysis.

• Analyse results of macroscopic and microscopic inspection:  analyse quality of the images, react with laboratory if parameters are not corrects, to comment images and give orientation

• Achieve or Manage Vickers Hardness measurements, according to standard.

• Identify additional analysis necessary for deeper investigation when necessary: surface analysis XPS, AES, 3D XRAY, CSAM, etc…..

• Provide metrics about activities

• In future:

  • interpret analysis results: figure out problems, propose failure mechanism schemes, etc….

  • Propose solutions to improve efficiency and reduce issues

  • Define best practices and design rules, coming from analysis in order to improve efficiency and reduce the issues.

• General missions 

  • Should have knowledge on executing tasks in project management mode 

  • Drive and monitor the Material Analysis activities

  • Provide analysis reports in accordance with existing templates

  • Support project teams for all Valeo Business Group team

  • Involved in the domain meetings via technical presentations.

  • Involved in the technology watch, the research and the deployment of innovative analysis and in order to maintain the excellence in the domain

  • Build credibility to the project teams for all Valeo Business Group team.

Job:

R&D Engineer

Organization:

Mechanical

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2025-11-13

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com