Assistant Research Programmer

Wolfram Institute; Concord (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolfram Institute in the United States seeks a fluent Wolfram Language programmer to help develop formal computational models in biology, medicine, and machine learning. You will write clean, efficient Wolfram Language code, explore parameter spaces, and visualize results to support scientific publishing.

Join a research group led by Stephen Wolfram that emphasizes rigorous computation and transparent code.

Qualifications

• Fluent Wolfram Language programmer with the ability to write clean, concise and efficient code for exploring computational models.
• Interest in formal computational models and scientific exploration in biology, medicine, and ML.

Responsibilities

• Assist in writing Wolfram Language to run and visualize computational experiments.
• Explore parameter spaces, fine-tune visualizations and publish relevant code.

Skills

Wolfram Language

C language

Rust language

Tools

C

Rust

Job description

What you’ll do:

We’re looking for Wolfram Language programmers to help develop formal computational models to systematically answer foundational questions in biology, medicine, and machine learning.

Some questions our group, led by Stephen Wolfram, is currently studying:

• Computationally Modeling of the Origin of Life - How did life originate on earth, and how could it originate elsewhere?
• Biological Complexity - Can we formalize (computationally) Darwin’s theory of natural selection and the proliferation of complex forms in biology?
• Computational Clinical Trials - What are, if any, the fundamental limitations to how well treatments can be tested in medicine?
• Laws of Machine Learning - What ubiquitous features of machine learning exist and can we capture those with minimal computational models?

For this role, your main responsibility will be to assist in the writing of Wolfram Language to run and visualize computational experiments. This will involve exploring different parameter spaces, fine-tuning visualizations, and documenting and publishing relevant code.

Who you are

Required Skills:

• Fluent Wolfram Language programmer with the ability to write clean, concise and efficient wolfram language code for the exploration and visualization of various computational models like cellular automata, Turing machines, etc.
• An understanding and enthusiasm for the Wolfram approach to science (https://www.wolframscience.com/)

Desirable Skills:

• College-level mathematical ability
• Ability to author and understand highly optimized code in high-performance languages (C, Rust) for exploring computational models
• General interest and enthusiasm for scientific fields like biology, medicine, machine learning etc.
• Ability to articulate complex results clearly and concisely