Materials Scientist - Fully Remote

Materials Scientist role focused on building digital workspaces and designing tasks for AI agents, requiring collaboration with research teams.

Location: Remote

Salary: $110k–$150k

Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on Drive folders.
• Design multi-step tasks for frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other experts and research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria.

Requirements

• MS / PhD in materials science, chemistry, physics, or related discipline.
• 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 R&D organization, national lab, or R1 university materials research group.
• Background in metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, or semiconductor materials.
• Experience in characterization (XRD, SEM/TEM, spectroscopy, thermal analysis).
• Computational materials science / DFT / MD.
• Process development and scale-up.
• Reliability / failure analysis in advanced materials.
• Day-to-day use of VASP, Materials Studio (Biovia), LabVantage / LabWare LIMS, and ANSYS Fluent / STAR-CCM+.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing.

Additional Information

• Originally posted on Himalayas