General Application

The role

Engineers will build platform infrastructure at the intersection of computational science, AI systems, and software engineering. The goal is to build AI systems to discover new physics at scale.

What you will do

• Use this general application to be considered as PSI grows.
• Specify where you would have the most impact in research direction, engineering surface, customer engagement, or product.

Required qualifications

• A track record of shipping substantive work in physics research, AI systems, engineering platforms, customer-facing products, or commercial deals.
• Comfort working at the intersection of physics, AI, and software engineering.
• Curiosity, intellectual honesty, and a bias toward action.
• Excited by the possibility that AI could fundamentally transform how physics is done.
• Committed to PSI's mission of advancing scientific discovery for broad public benefit.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• May be required to be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, or individual granted refugee or asylum status) or be eligible to receive required U.S. government export auth

Nice to have

• Background in AI Research, Physics Research, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure, Security, or Forward Deployed Engineering.
• Publications, open-source contributions, or shipped systems that the community has adopted.
• Prior experience at a fast-growing deep-tech, AI, or research-focused organization.
• Domain expertise in data centers, energy, fusion, batteries, hydrogen, carbon capture, or comparable physics-bearing verticals.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including salary.
• Benefits.
• Meaningful early-stage equity.

Before you apply

• PSI is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role, now or in the future.
• PSI may require that the person in this role be a U.S. person to comply with U.S. export control laws.
• We review general applications on a rolling basis and respond when we identify a strong fit.

About the company

Physical Superintelligence is a startup building AI systems to discover new physics at scale. The company has roots at Google, NVIDIA, Harvard, Meta, MIT, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge, and the Perimeter Institute.