KVD enables companies and labs to use the scanning electron microscopes they already own to perform electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), a chemical-fingerprinting technique historically requiring a separate, far more expensive instrument. EELS excels at light elements, making it particularly suited to characterizing lithium-ion and solid-state battery failure modes, catalyst bonding states, and elemental distributions in next-generation magnets.

Industry: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
Company Size: 2-10 employees

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KVD is hiring our first applications scientist.

We're an MIT spinout commercializing KeVEELS, a retrofit detector stage that brings transmission-mode EELS to existing SEMs at a fraction of TEM cost. We're at Greentown Labs in Somerville, building our prototype for customer pilot deployment.

We're looking for someone to join us as an advisor, with potential for a deeper role over time. The right person has:

- PhD-level depth in EELS as a working technique, not a passing acquaintance

- First-author publications where EELS is the central characterization method

- Comfort with quantification (core-loss fitting, ELNES interpretation, multivariate analysis) and at least one of HyperSpy, DigitalMicrograph, or Velox

- Applications experience across more than one material system. Battery materials, catalysis, transition metal oxides, and 2D materials are all squarely in our customer base.

- Bonus: prior industry exposure at Gatan, Thermo Fisher, JEOL, Bruker, or a national lab user facility.

- Boston-area candidates preferred.

If this sounds like you, or someone you know, send a note to roman@sem-eels.com.

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