Materials Scientist - Fully Remote
Mercor
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Job details
- Company
- Mercor
- Location
- United States
- Remote
- Yes
- Salary
- $110,000 - $150,000
- Field
- Other
- Source
- via Himalayas
Posted
May 1, 2026
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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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