Staff Computational Materials Scientist

Location: Devens, Massachusetts, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global Systems develops materials and technologies supporting SPARC, a net-energy tokamak, and the ARC fusion power plant.

What you will do

• Build computational toolsets, workflows, and methods to predict material properties in extreme temperature, radiation, and magnetic-field environments with uncertainty bounds.
• Identify chemical and microstructural features affecting material performance and quantify process-structure-properties-performance relationships.
• Design and support experiments involving corrosion, stress, irradiation, magnetic and electric fields, and high temperature.
• Develop material design-curve methodologies for tokamak applications, including fatigue, dielectric breakdown, and radiation effects.
• Benchmark material-property variability, identify knowledge gaps, and use simulations to improve manufacturing and process understanding.
• Create workflows for capturing, storing, visualizing, and analyzing materials data; support materials standards and technical specifications.

Requirements

• Degree in Materials Science and Engineering, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, Physical Chemistry, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10+ years of experimental or computational materials science experience.
• Experience with computational materials science and ICME tools, multiscale simulation, predictive modeling, and model validation using experimental data or physical bounds.
• Knowledge of atomistic modeling, molecular dynamics, density functional theory, Monte Carlo, phase-field, crystal-plasticity, dislocation-dynamics, computational thermodynamics, and finite-element methods.
• Experience with scientific computing, numerical algorithms, high-performance computing, distributed processing, GPU acceleration, and advanced statistical methods.
• Ability to work on-site in Devens, Massachusetts, comply with U.S. export control laws, and work safely around industrial hazards.

Nice to have

• Experience presenting complex quantitative data in a clear and intuitive format.
• Experience making decisions in fast-paced engineering environments and completing under-defined problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication with technical teams.
• Experience working in flexible, service-oriented engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity.
• Company-wide holidays, flexible vacation days, sick days, and parental leave.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer matching and professional growth opportunities.
• Occasional nights, weekends, on-call work, and travel of less than 10% may be required.
• Work includes safety considerations involving heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead, high voltage, and cryogenics.