Computational Materials Scientist, Extreme Environments

Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC; Harvard (MA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in Devens, MA, seeks a Staff Computational Materials Scientist to advance physics-based modeling of materials under extreme environments, including high temperature, radiation, and magnetic fields. You will develop ICME workflows, generate synthetic data, and collaborate with design engineers to define material properties and validate models with experimental bounds.

Applicants should have 10+ years in computational materials science and experience across

Qualifications

• Background in process-structure-properties relationships and materials in extreme environments.
• Experience with codes for calculation and analyses of material properties and microstructures.
• Understanding models enabling materials simulation across length scales.

Responsibilities

• Use computational toolsets to predict material properties in extreme environments with uncertainty bounds.
• Identify microstructural features affecting performance and quantify relationships for engineering optimization.
• Inform experimental design for materials in extreme environments, including corrosion, stress, and irradiation.
• Develop material design curves methodology for tokamak applications, including fatigue and radiation effects.
• Collaborate with engineers to capture, store, and visualize data in the materials domain.
• Support writing materials standard specifications and stay current with modeling techniques.

Skills

Computational modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Scientific computing

High-performance computing

Uncertainty quantification

Education

Materials Science/Engineering or related field

Applied Physics or Physical Chemistry

Tools

ICME tools

Atomistic/DFT/MD

Phase-field

FEM/FD/FVM/BEM solvers

Job description

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in Devens, MA, seeks a Staff Computational Materials Scientist to advance physics-based modeling of materials under extreme environments, including high temperature, radiation, and magnetic fields. You will develop ICME workflows, generate synthetic data, and collaborate with design engineers to define material properties and validate models with experimental bounds.

Applicants should have 10+ years in computational materials science and experience across