Materials Science Expert

Micro1; India; A distancia; INR 10.348.000 - 23.930.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cashback24x7 is seeking a Materials Science Expert contractor to design and solve advanced materials problems. You will craft challenging problems, provide precise analyses, and define clear correctness criteria for evaluation, drawing on doctoral-level expertise.

You will work remotely, applying your deep knowledge in materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, or related fields, with exposure to industrial or academic research settings.

Formación

• Master’s or PhD in materials science or a closely related field.
• Principal-level industry experience or a faculty appointment.

Responsabilidades

• Design difficult technical problems from your area with realistic constraints.
• Provide the correct solution and walk through the reasoning.
• Define objective criteria for correctness.
• Review problems built by other contributors for technical accuracy and soundness of method.
• Flag problems that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable.

Conocimientos

Technical depth

Analytical thinking

Clear explanations

Educación

Master's or PhD in materials science

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

Role Title: Materials Science Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: $80- $185/hour

Commitment: Flexible — fits alongside your current role

Location: Fully remote

You’ll need:

Master’s or PhD in materials science or a closely related field, plus principal-level industry experience or a faculty appointment

Your tasks:

Build challenging technical problems from your own domain and define what makes an answer correct

You’ll be working on the problems where the textbook answer isn’t enough, where the right approach depends on reading the constraints correctly, where a plausible-looking solution is quietly wrong. You’ll build those problems, provide the correct analysis, and define what separates a right answer from one that only looks right.

What you’ll do

• Design difficult technical problems from your own area — structure-property relationships, processing, characterization, failure analysis, computational materials — with realistic constraints and supporting data.
• Provide the correct solution and walk through the reasoning that gets there.
• Define objective criteria for correctness, so another expert reviewing the work would reach the same verdict.
• Review problems built by other contributors for technical accuracy and soundness of method.
• Flag problems that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable rather than submitting them.

What we’re looking for

• Master’s or PhD in materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymer science, condensed matter physics, or a closely related field.
• Principal, staff, or fellow-level experience in industrial or national lab research, or a faculty appointment at a leading university.
• Deep technical depth in at least one materials subdomain, with hands‑on ownership of the work.
• Able to explain why an answer is correct clearly enough that another scientist could verify it.
• Publications, patents, or a record of technical leadership is a strong plus.
• AI or LLM evaluation experience is a plus, but not required.