Advanced materials startups hiring now

Sila Nanotechnologies

Alameda, US · Series F

Sila develops and manufactures Titan Silicon, a nano-composite silicon anode material that replaces graphite in lithium-ion batteries.

25 open roles4% remote

Diamond Foundry

Diamond Foundry produces lab-grown single-crystal diamonds. Diamond Foundry provides diamond wafers and chiplets for thermal challenges in electronic chips.

24 open roles0% remote

CuspAI

Cambridge, GB · Series B

CuspAI develops artificial intelligence systems designed to accelerate the discovery and development of new materials. Its platform functions like a search engine, enabling users to request new materials with specific properties on demand. The company combines AI models, scientific data, computational tools, and laboratory validation to help researchers design materials with specific properties for applications including semiconductors, energy storage, climate technologies, and advanced manufacturing.

11 open roles9% remote

Dunia Innovations

Dunia integrates the Design-Make-Test-Analyze cycle for materials discovery. Its robotic platform executes electrochemical experiments.

11 open roles

Frore Systems

Series D

Frore Systems develops advanced thermal technologies for data centers and edge devices. Its cooling technologies are integrated into products from major OEMs and system builders.

10 open roles0% remote

Boston Materials

Boston Materials produces advanced materials with enhanced energy transfer properties. Its products address performance bottlenecks in thermal applications.

9 open roles0% remote

Orbital

London, GB · Series B

Orbital is an AI-first industrial company that designs, manufactures, and ships physical products using frontier AI technology. Its products include the Orbital Dual Use Chiller, which provides heat ejection for liquid-cooled data centers and uses waste heat to capture water or CO₂. The company's internal AI software platform, Curie, is used by materials scientists, hardware engineers, and manufacturing engineers to design and build products.

7 open roles0% remote

Group14 Technologies

woodinville, US · Series D

Silicon battery materials

4 open roles

alqem

3 open roles

Phoenix Tailings

Woburn, US · Series B

Phoenix Tailings extracts and refines rare earth and other critical metals using proprietary processing methods that transform mined ore and legacy mining waste into usable metal products. The company has been commercially shipping rare earth metal products since 2023.

3 open roles0% remote

Holy Technologies

Conventional composite manufacturing struggles to scale efficiently. Our process is designed for it.

3 open roles

Electra

Boulder, US · Series B

Electra produces clean iron through a low-temperature, electrochemical-hydrometallurgical process that uses renewable energy to transform iron ore into 99% pure iron. The company's modular system is designed as building blocks that can be easily added and combined for rapid scaling.

3 open roles

Fortera

Fortera produces low-carbon cementitious materials. Its cement product reduces carbon dioxide emissions during cement manufacturing.

2 open roles

Mangrove Lithium

Delta, CA

Mangrove Lithium converts lithium feedstocks into high-purity lithium hydroxide or carbonate.

2 open roles

American Advanced Materials

American Advanced Materials manufactures premium grade titanium materials. It also manufactures zirconium materials.

2 open roles

Quantica

Quantica develops digital manufacturing solutions. Its advanced inkjet systems support industrial production.

2 open roles

Notpla

Notpla makes regenerative packaging materials. The materials are made from seaweed and plants.

2 open roles

actnano

actnano develops surface protection technology against water damage and harsh environmental conditions.

1 open roles

ChEmpower Corporation

Beaverton, US

ChEmpower is a venture-backed advanced materials and specialized chemistry startup developing abrasive-free planarization technology for the manufacture of advanced semiconductor devices. The company develops and supplies chemically reactive pads for planarization, offering an abrasive-free alternative to traditional polishing processes. ChEmpower has demonstrated an abrasive-free 300mm copper technology and a pilot line for pad production.

1 open roles

Materiom

Materiom generates data for bio-based materials development. It builds AI models to replace toxic plastics.

1 open roles

Magrathea

Series A

Magrathea develops electrolytic processes for making magnesium metal.

1 open roles

Boston Metal

Boston Metal develops Molten Oxide Electrolysis technology for metals production.

1 open roles

Limelight Steel

Oakland, US · Seed

Limelight Steel develops electric ironmaking technology that uses laser-powered furnaces for producing steel. The company's laser furnace converts clean electricity into laser light tuned to rapidly and efficiently heat iron ore and create iron metal and steel products.

1 open roles

Qnity

Wilmington, US · Post Ipo

Semiconductor components (spin out from DuPont)

169 open roles4% remote