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Entry-Level - Researcher — Computational Materials Science: Continuum Scales and Materials Discovery
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 Warren, Michigan, United States of America
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Researcher” (Materials Engineers) in MI: $114k–$144k, median $135k. Most were filed at wage level IV (67%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description The Role: As a valued Researcher in the Mechanics, Materials, and Process Research Lab at General Motors Research and Development, you will advance computational materials science at continuum length scales to accelerate the discovery, design, and deployment of materials for next-generation vehicle and manufacturing applications. You will propose new research directions, establish technical research plans, and lead collaborative studies that connect material composition, microstructure, processing, performance, and engineering requirements. You will develop and apply continuum-scale models, simulation workflows, and data-driven methods to generate new insights into materials behavior across relevant spatial and temporal scales. Your work will guide experimental research, enable efficient materials down-selection, and help translate computational discoveries into practical materials and manufacturing solutions. You will document and communicate results through high-quality technical reports, external publications, presentations, software or workflow documentation, and records of invention. The Team: This position supports the development of advanced materials and manufacturing technologies for future GM products and processes. The researcher will work at the intersection of continuum-scale simulation, materials discovery, experimental validation, and application-focused engineering. What You’ll Do: • Plan and execute collaborative research in computational materials science, with emphasis on continuum-scale materials behavior and materials discovery. • Develop physics-based models for composition–process–structure–property relationships, including constitutive behavior, phase evolution, transport, damage, fracture, fatigue, thermal response, and multiphysics phenomena as appropriate. • Build and apply continuum and mesoscale simulation methods such as finite-element, phase-field, crystal-plasticity, computational fluid dynamics, reaction–diffusion, cellular automata, or related approaches. • Integrate thermodynamics, kinetics, mechanics, processing science, and materials data into predictive computational workflows. • Use simulation, high-throughput computation, optimization, and data-driven methods to screen candidate materials, compositions, processing conditions, and architectures. • Partner closely with experimental researchers to define informative experiments, interpret results, quantify uncertainty, and accelerate materials down-selection. • Establish model verification, validation, calibration, uncertainty quantification, and sensitivity-analysis practices appropriate for research and engineering use. • Connect computational materials insights to manufacturing processes and vehicle-relevant performance requirements. • Drive internal and external collaborations with GM engineering teams, universities, national laboratories, software developers, and research partners. • Maintain awareness of the state of the art in continuum mechanics, computational materials science, materials informatics, scientific machine learning, and related disciplines. • Prepare timely, high-quality technical reports, presentations, publications, software documentation, and invention disclosures. • Generate intellectual property to protect new inventions, computational methods, and research results. • Assist and mentor other employees in accomplishing project and research goals. Required Qualifications: • Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or a closely related field. • Must be graduating between August 2026 - June 2027 • Able to work fulltime, 40 hours per week