Hybrid | Senior Materials Scientist

Senior Materials Science And Engineering Professional

We are sharing a specialised full-time opportunity for senior materials science and engineering professionals with substantial research or industrial R&D experience across advanced materials, characterisation, simulation, and materials development. This role supports advanced research focused on improving how AI systems reason through real-world materials science and engineering work. Selected professionals will review complex technical tasks and outputs, develop authoritative reference solutions and instructions, and translate expert materials judgement into rigorous standards for scientifically sound problem-solving.

Materials Science Quality Review

• Evaluate materials science and engineering tasks for technical accuracy, completeness, and professional realism
• Review outputs for unsupported structure–property relationships, weak mechanistic reasoning, flawed assumptions, and missing considerations
• Identify conclusions that appear plausible but would not withstand expert technical scrutiny
• Assess whether interpretations are appropriately supported by experimental, computational, or literature evidence
• Apply senior-level judgement across complex materials problems

Structure, Properties & Performance

• Develop and review tasks involving relationships between material structure, composition, processing, and performance
• Evaluate mechanical, thermal, electrical, electrochemical, optical, and related material properties
• Assess whether proposed mechanisms are consistent with observed behaviour
• Identify gaps between experimental evidence and claimed conclusions
• Produce reference solutions grounded in established materials science principles

Energy Storage & Battery Materials

• Contribute expertise to scenarios involving electrode materials, electrolytes, interfaces, degradation, and performance
• Evaluate material-selection and optimisation decisions
• Assess electrochemical behaviour and structure–property relationships
• Identify unsupported claims around lifetime, stability, safety, or performance
• Apply practical research judgement to battery and energy-storage problems

Semiconductors & Electronic Materials

• Develop and review tasks involving semiconductor materials, thin films, electronic properties, and device-relevant behaviour
• Evaluate processing, characterisation, and materials-selection decisions
• Assess defects, interfaces, transport properties, and structure–function relationships
• Identify inconsistencies between physical mechanisms and proposed interpretations
• Apply relevant materials and applied-physics knowledge

Polymers, Soft Matter & Structural Materials

• Review scenarios involving polymers, composites, soft materials, alloys, and metallurgy
• Evaluate processing–microstructure–property relationships
• Assess phase behaviour, deformation, failure, durability, and performance
• Develop technically realistic materials-selection and optimisation tasks
• Apply practical understanding of industrial and research workflows

Characterisation & Microscopy

• Develop and evaluate tasks involving microscopy, spectroscopy, diffraction, and other materials-characterisation methods
• Interpret experimental outputs and determine whether conclusions are supported
• Assess method selection, sample preparation, limitations, and artefacts
• Identify when additional characterisation or validation is required
• Translate practical laboratory judgement into clear evaluation criteria

Computational Materials & Simulation

• Review problems involving computational materials science, modelling, and simulation
• Evaluate assumptions, boundary conditions, numerical approaches, and interpretation of results
• Assess whether computational outputs align with physical expectations
• Develop tasks involving simulation-driven materials analysis or optimisation
• Identify numerical or modelling limitations that materially affect conclusions

Instruction & Reference Solution Development

• Write detailed task instructions reflecting authentic materials science workflows
• Produce high-quality reference solutions to complex technical problems
• Define what constitutes a complete, scientifically credible, and professionally defensible…