R&D Engineer Commercial Tread Compounds
Pubblicato il 23-08-2026 - Bridgestone in Roma
POSITION SNAPSHOT Type of work: On site
Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent
Full/Part Time: Tempo pieno
Location: ROMA, IT
ABOUT US Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.
ABOUT THE ROLE Job Title
Job Purpose
Joining a dynamic and motivated compound development team, the R&D; compound development engineer will lead design, develop and validate innovative compound solutions for the future Bridgestone products.
The candidate will play a key role in the development of new commercial compound development through his/her solid knowledge on Material Science, Chemistry and industrial process technology, covering a wide range of activities from design thinking of compound prototype, laboratory investigation, compound validation on tire until industrialization stage.
Responsibilities
Design, develop and validate new tread compound formulations providing proposals, solutions and original ideas along cross functional team-working with the Raw Material Development, Pattern Design Engineering, Tire Design, Manufacturing and Product Category Management teams.
Support and collaborate with Raw materials, Pattern and modeling Design for implementation of most advanced technology solutions in tribology, fracture mechanics, durability, mixing, curing and extrusion technologies
Promote Open Innovation projects with Bridgestone Partners & Academia.
Work effectively with technicians, R&D; r