Materials Scientist - Fully Remote

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United States
$110,000 - $150,000 / year
full-time
junior
Posted May 1, 2026
via himalayas

About This Role

Materials Scientist - Fully Remote. 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. Originally posted on Himalayas

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