Remote Materials Scientist — AI Modeling & Simulation Pro

Executive Staff Recruiters / ESR Healthcare; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

ESR Healthcare seeks a Materials Science Expert to contribute to an AI training project focused on computational materials science, materials modeling, and Python automation. The role requires building reproducible, script-driven solutions and validating simulations across atomistic to continuum scales.

The contractor will create material structures, run diverse simulations, and analyze results, ensuring physical validity and alignment with experimental data.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Materials Science and Engineering or related discipline.
• Strong Python proficiency and ability to implement reproducible workflows.
• Experience with computational materials modeling and simulations.

Responsibilities

• Solve and validate computational materials-science problems.
• Create material structures and solver-ready inputs.
• Model relationships between composition, structure, and properties.
• Run simulations (atomistic, electronic, MD, continuum) and analyze results.
• Use Python to automate calculations and parameter sweeps.
• Review AI-generated solutions for scientific correctness.

Skills

Python

Materials science

Modeling

Data analysis

Education

MS/PhD in Materials Science and Engineering

MS/PhD in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering with materials focus

Tools

LAMMPS

ASE

pymatgen

Quantum ESPRESSO

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

ESR Healthcare seeks a Materials Science Expert to contribute to an AI training project focused on computational materials science, materials modeling, and Python automation. The role requires building reproducible, script-driven solutions and validating simulations across atomistic to continuum scales.

The contractor will create material structures, run diverse simulations, and analyze results, ensuring physical validity and alignment with experimental data.