AI Research Scientist — Agentic AI for Materials Discovery

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$184K-$257K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

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+9.8% - Much faster than average

89% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

AI Research Scientist — Agentic AI for Materials Discovery Redmond, WA; Pasadena, CA This role sits within Meta's Reality Labs Research, in the Material and Systems Innovation team, which develops advanced materials for two of Meta's most ambitious hardware frontiers: lightweight, all-day wearable AR glasses and next-generation sensing and actuating materials for robotics. The AI Specialist will design and build LLM-orchestrated multi-agent systems that autonomously drive materials discovery pipelines - from computational screening and simulation through synthesis and characterization - across both domains. By closing this loop with agentic AI, we aim to compress discovery timelines from years to weeks, directly accelerating Meta's ability to ship breakthrough AR/VR and robotics hardware. This position bridges two of Meta's highest-priority investment areas - frontier AI and the physical systems underpinning the metaverse and embodied intelligence - and will contribute both production systems and published research at top-tier venues. Responsibilities: - Design, implement, and optimize LLM-orchestrated multi-agent systems for autonomous materials discovery pipelines - Build specialized AI sub-agents that operate within a closed-loop discovery framework - Integrate agentic AI workflows with computational chemistry tools (DFT, MD, Monte Carlo) and HPC infrastructure - Develop and fine-tune retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems over scientific literature corpora for real-time knowledge synthesis - Collaborate with materials scientists, computational chemists, and ML researchers to translate domain workflows into autonomous agent architectures - Evaluate and benchmark agent performance on materials discovery tasks - measuring accuracy, throughput, and synthetic viability of generated candidates - Contribute to open-source tooling and publish research

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