Principal Research Scientist - AI for Industrial Physics

PhysicsX; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

10% employer pension contribution

Free office lunches

Enhanced parental leave (3 months p+p,

YellowNest nursery scheme

25 days of Annual Leave

Private medical insurance

Wellhub subscription

Eye tests

Personal development

Employee Assistance Programme

Bike2Work scheme

Octopus EV salary sacrifice

Job summary

PhysicsX, a physics AI company, is hiring for senior research roles in London. You will own research streams, shape strategy, and mentor junior engineers while translating complex physics problems into scalable ML solutions.

Join a collaborative team developing cutting-edge simulation software. You will publish and present findings, and work in a hybrid setup with offices in Shoreditch and flexible work-from-home days.

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field with expertise in machine learning for science/engineering.
• 4+ years in industry building ML models/pipelines in Python (deep learning focus)
• Experience with high-dimensional/spatiotemporal/geometric data
• Strong communication skills for peers and non-peers, papers/workshops

Responsibilities

• Lead research work-streams and set technical direction.
• Translate physics/engineering challenges into mathematical formulations.
• Build models to predict physical system behavior using state-of-the-art ML/DL techniques.
• Collaborate with ML, simulation engineers, and customers to productionise models.

Skills

Deep learning

Python (PyTorch/CUDA)

Problem solving

Communication with customers

Education

PhD in CS/ML/Applied Stats/Math/Physics/Engineering

Tools

PyTorch

CUDA

JAX

NumPy/SciPy

Job description

PhysicsX, a physics AI company, is hiring for senior research roles in London. You will own research streams, shape strategy, and mentor junior engineers while translating complex physics problems into scalable ML solutions.

Join a collaborative team developing cutting-edge simulation software. You will publish and present findings, and work in a hybrid setup with offices in Shoreditch and flexible work-from-home days.