Principal Material Scientist at Sentient Science

Details;

Department:  Product Development, Defense Business Unit

Supervisor: Product Director, Modeling & Simulation – Defense Business Unit

Position Summary:

Sentient Science is collaborating with our partners at Argonne National Lab to help commercialize technology to drastically reduce the time and cost to develop new materials and integrate advanced atomistic scale simulation capabilities into our DigitalClone platform. The capabilities will enable our customers to develop first-principle based material models to digitally design and develop materials for their increasingly complex products ranging from batteries, advanced semiconductors, high temperature and high strength alloys, and predict micro-structure and material properties of additively manufactured components.

We are seeking a highly motivated team member with proven expertise in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, and force field development to help lead the technical direction of these game changing ICME tools. The successful candidate will have strong communication skills and the ability to lead and collaborate on projects with national labs and software development. The candidate should be well versed in the latest modeling techniques and be able to conduct advanced simulations to determine phase behavior, thermodynamic properties, and structural properties. The candidate will also contribute to enhancements to our calculation physics engines at the heart of our products.

Responsibilities:

• Work with software, data science, and material science team members in an Agile/Scrum workflow.
• Directing and coordinating our technology development programs with Argonne National Lab
• Develop workflows and use cases for molecular modeling and materials design (BLAST) toolkit, meta-stable phase prediction toolkit, and other technologies being developed for material modeling
• Collaborate with software developers, product managers, and other key stakeholders to develop product architecture.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to stakeholders in an easy-to-understand manner to determine product requirements.
• Contribute code to in-house physics codes via updates to numerical methods or additional physics considerations.
• Keep up to date on the latest in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, and simulation.
• Collaborate with industry, government, and academic customers on projects to advance their material modeling capabilities.
• Contribute to technical roadmap to help shape core R&D capabilities related to material modeling.

Experience & Qualifications:

• PhD or MS in Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Physics, Chemistry or another related STEM field.
• 10+ years’ experience computational chemistry, force field development, and molecular dynamic simulations.
• Experience in multi-scale modeling of materials, from the atomistic scale to the continuum scale
• Experience in developing computationally efficient methodologies for molecular simulations and inverse design problems
• Proficient in MATLAB, Python, Linux, shell scripting.
• Experience using and running simulations in HPC environments.
• Experience using LAMMPS, VASP packages.
• Excellent team player with an action-oriented bias and great communication skills.

Preferred experience:

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, Material Science, or other related STEM field

• 5+ years’ experience computational chemistry, force field development, and molecular dynamic simulations
• Subject matter expert in Force Field development and their use in molecular dynamic simulations
• Experience in multi-scale modeling of materials, from the atomistic scale to the continuum scale
• Experience in developing computationally efficient methodologies for molecular simulations and inverse design problems
• AI/ML experience in developing and designing frameworks for materials discovery
• Proficient in developing numerical methods and algorithms in Fortran, C, and C++

Benefits:

• Medical
• Dental
• 401K
• Short/Long Term Disability
• Life/AD&D insurance
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible working hours and fully remote option available

Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us forward every day.

Interested candidates should send their CV to Dr. Sankaranarayanan ([email protected]) and Jason Rios ([email protected]).