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Development engineers are sponsored at Intel, Apple, Medtronic, Pfizer, Tesla, and hundreds of technology, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing companies for roles designing new products, developing processes, and advancing R&D programs that require electrical, mechanical, chemical, or biomedical engineering degrees. H-1B visa classification is automatic because development engineering is a core specialty occupation, and demand spans chip design at Intel and NVIDIA, drug formulation at Pfizer and Merck, product development at Apple and Tesla, and process development at Dow and BASF.
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At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
Baytown
With a population of more than 77,000, Baytown, Texas, is located in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, just east of Houston, the nation's fourth largest city. Those who live and work in Baytown will find an area rich in history, as well as opportunities for outdoor activities due to its proximity to scenic waterways, namely Galveston Bay, the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.
Founded in 1919, ExxonMobil's Baytown Complex is located on approximately 3,400 acres along the Houston Ship Channel, about 25 miles east of Houston. Employing a workforce of more than 8,500, it is comprised of four manufacturing sites, including one in nearby Mont Belvieu, and a global technology center. These include the Baytown Refinery, one of the largest refineries in the United States, and the Baytown Olefins Plant, one of the largest ethylene plants in the world.
Its scope of products includes fuels, lube oils, and chemical compounds used in a diverse range of products, from auto battery cases, diapers and tire inner tubes to pharmaceutical uses, food packaging, trash bags and more.
The Baytown area sites are highly integrated, which makes the plants and products more efficient as we develop technologies to make cleaner fuels and work together to operate more safely and reliably.
What role you will play in our team
Help grow our ProxximaTM polyolefin thermoset system business. These resin formulations are based on cyclic C5 monomers and other proprietary monomers and additives. Our catalyst formulations have strong foundations in Nobel Prize-winning technology developed by Professor Robert Grubbs and his research team. This powerful combination produces polymers that have the capability to outperform today’s thermoset composite solutions across a broad set of everyday applications such as wind turbine blades, electric vehicle parts, construction, and anticorrosion coatings.
Your role is to demonstrate the application and performance advantages of ProxximaTM polyolefin thermoset coatings technology and help prospective customers adopt it for use in their existing coating products.
Your office is at the Baytown Technology and Engineering Complex located in Baytown, Texas. However, you will collaborate with commercial colleagues located at the ExxonMobil Campus in Spring, Texas, as well as occasionally traveling in North America and internationally to support customer trials.
What you will do
- Develop new anti-corrosion coatings and other coating formulations.
- Develop Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPN) type coatings combining ProxximaTM chemistry with that of epoxy, urethane, aspartic urea, and siloxane, etc., to produce novel hybrid coatings.
- Utilize equipment located in our Baytown facilities to fabricate smooth, defect-free coating samples needed to assess corrosion resistance and other performance parameters mimicking targeted industrial service conditions.
- Provide on-site technical support for customers developing new products using ProxximaTM resins and catalysts.
- Assist customers in application processes (spray, brush, roller, etc.) optimization and, where needed, provide guidance on equipment upgrades.
- Provide technical insights gleaned from the market to help guide new application developments.
- Provide market insights to inform and update business strategy.
- Develop novel technology to strengthen the portfolio of intellectual property.
- Author technical reports and technical publications to share learnings.
- Co-author promotional brochures and technical data sheets highlighting performance benefits.
- Train and mentor less experienced colleagues.
About you
Skills and Qualifications
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in Chemistry, Engineering, Coatings Science, Polymer Science, Materials Science or related degree
- 5+ years of industrial experience formulating high-performance thermoset coatings
- Strong understanding in thermoset coating chemistries (epoxy, urethane, urea, siloxane, radiation curing, etc.)
- Strong understanding in coating formulation principles, coating additives, colorants, adhesion promoters, anti-corrosion pigments and additives, inorganic fillers, extenders, rheology modifiers, etc.
- Knowledge of coating application methods, airless spray, plural component spray, brushing, roller, etc.
- Understanding of polymer structure-property-processing relationship
- Knowledge of ASTM, ISO, AMPP coating test methods
- Knowledge of statistical experimental design (DOE) and formulation optimization
- Knowledge of major thermoset coating markets, applications
- Strong interpersonal, analytical and communication skills
- Proficient in use of computers and possess excellent administrative and organizational skills
- Must be hands on with inclination to be lab based
- Knowledgeable of Intellectual property development/assessment/procurement
- Knowledge and experience of hybrid coatings of mixed chemistries, polymeric blends, IPN a plus
- Knowledge of ROMP (ring opening metathesis polymerization) and p-DCPD (dicyclopentadiene) chemistry a plus
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
- More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com
- Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
Stay connected with us
Learn more at our Website
Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram
Like us on Facebook
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Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates, many with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso and Mobil. For convenience and simplicity, those terms and terms like corporation, company, our, we and its are sometimes used as abbreviated references to specific affiliates or affiliate groups. Abbreviated references describing global or regional operational organizations and global or regional business lines are also sometimes used for convenience and simplicity. Similarly, ExxonMobil has business relationships with thousands of customers, suppliers, governments, and others. For convenience and simplicity, words like venture, joint venture, partnership, co-venturer, and partner are used to indicate business relationships involving common activities and interests, and those words may not indicate precise legal relationships.
About us
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
Baytown
With a population of more than 77,000, Baytown, Texas, is located in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, just east of Houston, the nation's fourth largest city. Those who live and work in Baytown will find an area rich in history, as well as opportunities for outdoor activities due to its proximity to scenic waterways, namely Galveston Bay, the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.
Founded in 1919, ExxonMobil's Baytown Complex is located on approximately 3,400 acres along the Houston Ship Channel, about 25 miles east of Houston. Employing a workforce of more than 8,500, it is comprised of four manufacturing sites, including one in nearby Mont Belvieu, and a global technology center. These include the Baytown Refinery, one of the largest refineries in the United States, and the Baytown Olefins Plant, one of the largest ethylene plants in the world.
Its scope of products includes fuels, lube oils, and chemical compounds used in a diverse range of products, from auto battery cases, diapers and tire inner tubes to pharmaceutical uses, food packaging, trash bags and more.
The Baytown area sites are highly integrated, which makes the plants and products more efficient as we develop technologies to make cleaner fuels and work together to operate more safely and reliably.
What role you will play in our team
Help grow our ProxximaTM polyolefin thermoset system business. These resin formulations are based on cyclic C5 monomers and other proprietary monomers and additives. Our catalyst formulations have strong foundations in Nobel Prize-winning technology developed by Professor Robert Grubbs and his research team. This powerful combination produces polymers that have the capability to outperform today’s thermoset composite solutions across a broad set of everyday applications such as wind turbine blades, electric vehicle parts, construction, and anticorrosion coatings.
Your role is to demonstrate the application and performance advantages of ProxximaTM polyolefin thermoset coatings technology and help prospective customers adopt it for use in their existing coating products.
Your office is at the Baytown Technology and Engineering Complex located in Baytown, Texas. However, you will collaborate with commercial colleagues located at the ExxonMobil Campus in Spring, Texas, as well as occasionally traveling in North America and internationally to support customer trials.
What you will do
- Develop new anti-corrosion coatings and other coating formulations.
- Develop Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPN) type coatings combining ProxximaTM chemistry with that of epoxy, urethane, aspartic urea, and siloxane, etc., to produce novel hybrid coatings.
- Utilize equipment located in our Baytown facilities to fabricate smooth, defect-free coating samples needed to assess corrosion resistance and other performance parameters mimicking targeted industrial service conditions.
- Provide on-site technical support for customers developing new products using ProxximaTM resins and catalysts.
- Assist customers in application processes (spray, brush, roller, etc.) optimization and, where needed, provide guidance on equipment upgrades.
- Provide technical insights gleaned from the market to help guide new application developments.
- Provide market insights to inform and update business strategy.
- Develop novel technology to strengthen the portfolio of intellectual property.
- Author technical reports and technical publications to share learnings.
- Co-author promotional brochures and technical data sheets highlighting performance benefits.
- Train and mentor less experienced colleagues.
About you
Skills and Qualifications
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in Chemistry, Engineering, Coatings Science, Polymer Science, Materials Science or related degree
- 5+ years of industrial experience formulating high-performance thermoset coatings
- Strong understanding in thermoset coating chemistries (epoxy, urethane, urea, siloxane, radiation curing, etc.)
- Strong understanding in coating formulation principles, coating additives, colorants, adhesion promoters, anti-corrosion pigments and additives, inorganic fillers, extenders, rheology modifiers, etc.
- Knowledge of coating application methods, airless spray, plural component spray, brushing, roller, etc.
- Understanding of polymer structure-property-processing relationship
- Knowledge of ASTM, ISO, AMPP coating test methods
- Knowledge of statistical experimental design (DOE) and formulation optimization
- Knowledge of major thermoset coating markets, applications
- Strong interpersonal, analytical and communication skills
- Proficient in use of computers and possess excellent administrative and organizational skills
- Must be hands on with inclination to be lab based
- Knowledgeable of Intellectual property development/assessment/procurement
- Knowledge and experience of hybrid coatings of mixed chemistries, polymeric blends, IPN a plus
- Knowledge of ROMP (ring opening metathesis polymerization) and p-DCPD (dicyclopentadiene) chemistry a plus
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
- More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com
- Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
Stay connected with us
Learn more at our Website
Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram
Like us on Facebook
Subscribe our channel at Youtube
Alternate Location:
Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates, many with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso and Mobil. For convenience and simplicity, those terms and terms like corporation, company, our, we and its are sometimes used as abbreviated references to specific affiliates or affiliate groups. Abbreviated references describing global or regional operational organizations and global or regional business lines are also sometimes used for convenience and simplicity. Similarly, ExxonMobil has business relationships with thousands of customers, suppliers, governments, and others. For convenience and simplicity, words like venture, joint venture, partnership, co-venturer, and partner are used to indicate business relationships involving common activities and interests, and those words may not indicate precise legal relationships.
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Semiconductor Development Engineers Are in Critical Shortage
Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, TSMC, and Broadcom sponsor for development engineers designing chips, developing process nodes, and characterizing new technologies. These roles pay $95,000 to $160,000 with equity and CHIPS Act investment driving aggressive hiring.
Medical Device Development Engineers Have Strong Sponsorship Pipelines
Medtronic, Stryker, Abbott, Boston Scientific, and Johnson & Johnson sponsor for engineers developing implantable devices, surgical instruments, and diagnostic equipment. Biomedical or mechanical engineering degrees make H-1B classification automatic.
Pharmaceutical Process Development Engineers Are Highly Valued
Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, AbbVie, and Genentech sponsor for development engineers optimizing drug formulation, biologics manufacturing, and analytical methods under FDA regulations. Chemical or biomedical engineering degrees combined with GMP knowledge create strong sponsorship arguments.
Consumer Electronics and EV Development Engineers Earn Premium Pay
Apple, Tesla, Google, Meta, and Rivian sponsor for hardware development engineers creating next-generation devices, battery systems, and autonomous platforms. These roles pay $110,000 to $190,000 with substantial equity compensation.
TN Engineer Provides Instant Access for USMCA Citizens
The Engineer category on the USMCA treaty list covers development engineering for Canadian and Mexican citizens with engineering degrees. Same-day border approval, no lottery, no cap, and three-year renewable terms.
L-1 Transfers From International R&D Centers Are Common
Intel, Apple, Medtronic, Pfizer, and Siemens operate R&D centers globally and transfer development engineers on L-1 from international labs. Build one year of documented design contributions and patent filings before requesting transfer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do companies sponsor H-1B visas for Development Engineers?
Yes, extensively. Development engineering requires engineering degrees by definition, making H-1B visa classification automatic. Semiconductor, pharmaceutical, medical device, and consumer electronics companies all sponsor at high volume.
How to find Development Engineer jobs with visa sponsorship?
Start by using Migrate Mate, a specialized platform that connects Development Engineers with visa-sponsoring employers. Focus your search on tech companies, automotive manufacturers, and aerospace firms that commonly sponsor H-1B, L-1 visa, and O-1 visas for engineering roles. These industries actively recruit international Development Engineers for product development, software engineering, and R&D positions across various specializations.
What is the typical salary for sponsored Development Engineer roles?
Development engineers earn $80,000 to $120,000 at mid-market companies. Semiconductor development engineers earn $95,000 to $165,000 with equity. Medical device engineers earn $85,000 to $140,000.
What qualifications strengthen a Development Engineer's sponsorship case?
An electrical, mechanical, chemical, or biomedical engineering degree is required. Patent filings and published research demonstrate innovation capability. Proficiency with CAD, simulation tools, and domain-specific platforms differentiates you from entry-level candidates.
Which industries sponsor Development Engineers most frequently?
Semiconductor companies have the most acute current demand due to CHIPS Act expansion. Medical device companies sponsor for product development across therapeutic areas. Pharmaceutical companies sponsor for process and formulation development.
What is the career progression for a sponsored Development Engineer?
The path moves from development engineer to senior engineer to principal engineer to engineering manager to director of R&D. Principal engineers earn $140,000 to $220,000. Directors of R&D earn $180,000 to $300,000.