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Founding Computational Materials Engineer

Compensation
$150,000–$200,000/year

Job Description

The Problem

Our models today are proposing new materials and synthesis recipes faster than any lab on earth can validate them. Many of these materials and recipes are dead ends, but a few are genuinely interesting and could lead to a novel breakthrough.

The role

As a Founding Computational Materials Engineer at Discovered Materials, you will:

  • Model the effect of surfaces, interfaces, grain boundaries, defects on material properties
  • Build finite element simulations to predict the impact of material properties on overall device performance.
  • Develop computational methods that that guide and validate synthesis recipes.

You will thrive here if:

  • You've built models of complex systems and validated them against real data
  • You’re comfortable with simulations across length scales, atomistic to continuum finite element models.
  • You enjoy working with fast-paced, ambitious teams and on problems with no written playbook

Our mission

Chips today are at least 10,000x less power efficient than the human brain. We believe new materials can close that gap, and we intend to do so by accelerating material discovery.

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Job Details

Category
Aerospace Engineering
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Mountain View, CA
Posted
Compensation
$150,000 - $200,000 per year

About Discovered Materials

We use AI to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry - specifically datacenters and fabs. Finding novel materials today takes 10+ years of lab work. We aim to compress that timeline to months, using a swarm of AI agents. Akash completed his PhD at Stanford on material discovery for semiconductors. The materials he discovered for nanoscale interconnects have been adopted into the roadmaps of Intel and TSMC. Advaith was the founding applied scientist at Persona AI (acquired by Luma Labs), where he built long horizon autonomous agents for major telecom and crypto companies. Power consumption and heat release from AI chips is doubling every year. The semiconductor industry needs new materials to keep this exponential going - Discovered Materials will help find them.

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