Founding Organic Chemist
Mountain View, CAFull-time$150–250K/yrSeen todayStill listed today
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Job overview
The Founding Organic Chemist will synthesize materials across multiple classes in Discovered Materials’ organic lab in Mountain View and help develop scientific theories by using experiments to validate hypotheses. The company uses AI to develop new scientific theories and materials for the semiconductor industry. Candidates who have worked with semiconductor organic materials and enjoy fast-paced, ambitious teams and new problems are likely to thrive.
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The role As a Founding Organic Chemist at Discovered Materials, you will:
- Synthesize materials across multiple classes in our organic lab in Mountain View
- Help us come up with new scientific theories by using experiments to validate hypotheses
You will thrive here if
- You’ve worked with semiconductor organic materials like resists, dielectrics, precursors, inhibitors etc.
- You enjoy working with fast-paced, ambitious teams and on new problems
Who we are We’re Advaith and Akash. Akash has a PhD in Material Science from Stanford University, and has spent the last 11 years researching new materials for semiconductor chips. His work on new nanoscale interconnects was Stanford Engineering’s most popular story of 2025. Advaith studied AI at Carnegie Mellon and was a research engineer building video models and agents at Persona AI (acquired) and Luma Labs. We met over 10 years ago at IIT-Madras. We’re backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and angels from Anthropic and OpenAI Our mission At Discovered Materials, we use AI to develop new scientific theories and materials for the semiconductor industry. Chips today are at least 10,000x less power efficient than the human brain. We aim to integrate new materials into chips that close this gap.
How this job compares
Set against the 524 open Chemist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–250K/yr
- US median$75–105K/yr139 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $200K, is 113% above the US median midpoint ($94K) — in the top quarter of Chemist salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 50 open Chemist jobs in California and 524 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Chemist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 313 postings).
- Education
- 248 of the 524 open Chemist jobs (47%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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