AI Research Scientist Jobs in United States

Description

Data and Evaluation Applied AI Scientist (Battery Informatics and Scientific AI Systems)

$180k - $310k

A fast growing energy technology company is expanding its AI research division and is looking for a Data and Evaluation Applied AI Scientist. The team builds advanced AI systems to accelerate discovery in energy storage and next generation battery materials. This role focuses on data correctness, scientific reasoning quality, and the integrity of battery domain knowledge used to train LLMs and multi agent scientific frameworks.

The company combines material science and applied AI to develop high energy Li Metal and Li ion battery technologies. Their platform uses AI enhanced discovery to design electrolytes, model electrochemical behavior, and develop new materials with real world applications across transportation, robotics, aerospace, and long duration energy storage.

What You Will Do

• Translate complex battery materials knowledge into structured, high quality, AI trainable datasets
• Lead rigorous data validation, cleaning, and annotation processes to ensure scientific correctness
• Create benchmark datasets and design multimodal evaluation suites for model testing
• Partner with AI architecture teams to assess and refine model reasoning across chemistry, materials, and electrochemical concepts
• Apply techniques that improve correctness and alignment, including methods inspired by human feedback systems
• Ensure that AI models demonstrate accurate understanding of molecular behavior, materials interactions, and battery domain logic
• Drive the application of battery informatics principles across data pipelines and model development

What You Bring

• PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on lithium battery systems or in Materials Science or a closely related computational field
• Deep domain expertise in battery materials and electrochemical systems
• Strong experience converting scientific data into AI trainable structures
• Practical experience with data validation, annotation, and benchmark dataset creation
• Exposure to LLM pipelines, AI evaluation, or multi agent scientific workflows
• Background in an applied science or AI for materials role

Preferred Experience

• Hands on experience with RLHF or other model tuning and alignment techniques
• Work history in battery labs, materials informatics teams, or AI4Science groups
• Experience designing domain specific evaluation frameworks for complex AI systems
• Experience as a computational battery AI specialist