About the role

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.

About Discovered Materials

At Discovered Materials, we build AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips.

AI chips have major power and heat problems, which is why datacenters consume unsustainable amounts of power and water today. Both the amount of power required and heat generated are influenced by the materials used to make chips. Today's materials are at their limit, and we want to bring in an order of magnitude of improvement by using new ones.

We are backed by a $9M seed round led by Lightspeed, with participation from Y Combinator and angels like Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram and Thariq Shihipar.