Platform Scientist I/II, Functional Materials Instrumentation (AI)

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

Expected base salary: $108,000–$170,000 USD per year, with bonus potential and early-stage equity.

Company

hirify.global builds AI-driven scientific systems and autonomous laboratory instruments to accelerate discovery across medicine, materials, and energy.

What you will do

• Establish fabrication and measurement workflows for functional materials.
• Specify, source, assemble, and validate custom synthesis and characterization systems, emphasizing optical characterization.
• Design and integrate specialized hardware for fabricating, characterizing, and testing novel functional materials and devices.
• Integrate instrumentation into autonomous laboratory and AI-driven experimental workflows.
• Diagnose and improve instrument designs using experimental feedback.
• Partner with computational, synthesis, and characterization teams to define future hardware capabilities.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent experience in applied physics, materials science, chemistry, or a related field.
• Expertise in functional materials such as semiconductors, photonics, or superconducting materials.
• Expertise in solid-state synthesis and characterization of functional materials.
• Demonstrated ability to build and integrate hardware for novel, high-throughput experimentation.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, data-driven, high-throughput R&D environments.

Nice to have

• Software development for controls, data collection, and analysis.
• CAD, machining, 3D printing, and rapid prototyping for custom hardware.
• Knowledge of AI/ML-driven discovery workflows or autonomous laboratory platforms.
• Experience with Class 4 lasers.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance, flexible time off, and generous company-wide holidays.
• Paid parental leave and educational assistance.
• Commuter benefits, including bike-share memberships for office-based employees.
• Company-subsidized lunch program and early-stage equity.