Head of Core AI

The role

The Head of Core AI will lead the team that builds models, agents, and training systems to do physics. This role involves owning the research portfolio, managing people, and maintaining technical standards through code reviews and individual work.

What you will do

• Lead the Core AI organization including people, delivery, and hiring
• Set the roadmap and research portfolio to improve AI systems for physics
• Own the training and evaluation infrastructure
• Partner with Applied AI and Physics teams
• Carry individual work and review code

Required qualifications

• Eight or more years of AI research work
• Track record of leading AI research teams that shipped
• Experience running an industrial AI research group at a frontier lab, fast-moving AI company, or equivalent
• At least three years of direct people management
• Deep fluency across modern ML
• Ability to personally build and train systems that beat non-trivial baselines
• Knowledge of reinforcement learning and post-training
• Knowledge of agents, evaluation and verification
• Knowledge of model architectures and training methods
• Knowledge of scientific and generative modeling
• Authorized to work in the United States
• May be required to be a U.S. person to comply with U.S. export control laws

Nice to have

• Publications and standing at top ML venues, or an AI research artifact the community has adopted
• Enough physics or mathematics to hold a substantive conversation with domain scientists
• Hands-on experience applying agents or RL to science, mathematics, code, or other complex-reasoning domains
• Experience scaling an AI research organization through rapid growth
• AI-for-science experience

Benefits

• Salary
• Benefits
• Meaningful early-stage equity

Before you apply

• Motivation for this specific job is assessed at the first conversation
• 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

About the company

Physical Superintelligence is a startup building AI systems to discover new physics at scale. The company aims to commercialize transformative physics breakthroughs using artificial superintelligence.