Founding Equipment Engineer
About the role
Founding Equipment Engineer role at Discovered Materials, a YC-backed startup, focusing on setting up deposition/characterization tools and designing customizable hardware for new synthesis approaches in the semiconductor materials space.
Responsibilities
- Set up our deposition and characterization tools.
- Design the customizable hardware that makes new synthesis approaches possible — sources, gas delivery, vacuum, thermal, motion.
- Build synthesis equipment with in-situ characterization capabilities with the ability
Qualifications
- You've built or substantially modified vacuum and deposition hardware.
- You've designed deposition and characterization tools from scratch for new materials
- You enjoy working with fast-paced, ambitious teams and on problems with no written playbook
Skills
About Discovered Materials
AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.
We build AI scientists that discover new materials for the semiconductor industry - specifically datacenters and fabs. Finding novel materials today takes 10+ years of lab work. We aim to compress that timeline to months, using a swarm of AI agents. Akash completed his PhD at Stanford on material discovery for semiconductors. The materials he discovered for nanoscale interconnects have been adopted into the roadmaps of Intel and TSMC. Advaith was the founding applied scientist at Persona AI (acquired by Luma Labs), where he built long horizon autonomous agents for major telecom and crypto companies. Power consumption and heat release from AI chips is doubling every year. The semiconductor industry needs new materials to keep this exponential going - Matforge will help find them.