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 Equipment Engineer at Discovered Materials, you will:
- Set up our deposition and characterization tools.
- Design the customizable hardware that makes new synthesis approaches possible — sources, gas delivery, vacuum, thermal, motion
- Build synthesis equipment with in-situ characterization capabilities with the ability
You will thrive here if:
- You've built or substantially modified vacuum and deposition hardware.
- You've designed deposition and characterization tools from scratch for new materials
- 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
- Manufacturing
- 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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