Materials Science Expert

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,