# Founding Organic Chemist at Discovered Materials

- Company: Discovered Materials (YC P26)
- What the company does: AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://discoveredmaterials.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/discovered-materials/jobs/rYjAAUt-founding-organic-chemist?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/discovered-materials-founding-organic-chemist/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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’ve worked with semiconductor organic materials like resists, dielectrics, precursors, inhibitors etc
- You enjoy working with fast-paced, ambitious teams and on new problems

Tags: Science

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/discovered-materials-founding-organic-chemist/