Member of Technical Staff, Physics Research

The role

The Member of Technical Staff will run research programs on open problems in fundamental physics using AI systems. You will encode correct answers to make physics legible to machines and write manuscripts for publication.

What you will do

• Run research programs on open problems in your area
• Formulate and direct AI systems at open problems
• Judge AI results and own the outcome
• Encode correct answers to make physics legible to machines
• Verify AI output against encoded answers
• Write manuscripts and own the path to publication
• Work with AI researchers on how agents reason about physics

Required qualifications

• Three or more years of research experience with publications in top-tier journals in one area of fundamental physics
• Three or more years of hands-on work at the physics-ML intersection
• Experience using machine learning or AI systems on a physics problem
• Ability to train or direct a model
• Ability to read a modern ML paper and reason about what an agent is doing
• Deep expertise in one area of theoretical or experimental physics: quantum theory, many-body and condensed matter; statistical mechanics and complex systems; atomic, molecular and optical; high energy

Nice to have

• Strong Python: production code, not just notebooks
• Results on named open problems or conjectures in your field
• Converting physics problems into machine-verifiable tasks; benchmark or verification systems for physics or mathematics results
• Refereeing for top journals

Benefits

• Salary
• Benefits
• Meaningful early-stage equity

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States
• PSI is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role, now or in the future
• May require that the person in this role 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.

About the company

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