Materials Scientist - Fully Remote

Mercor · United States

Company

Mercor

Location

United States

Type

Full Time

Job Description

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.

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