Member of Technical Staff, AI Research

Physical Superintelligence; Boston (MA); Híbrido; USD 150.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

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Descripción de la vacante

Physical Superintelligence in Boston is building AI systems to discover new physics at scale. We are seeking researchers to develop agents and training systems that learn to do physics, and to publish results that advance our mission.

The role emphasizes shipping working systems, deep expertise in reinforcement learning, model architectures, and verification. We welcome collaborations with physicists and engineers, and remote candidates may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Formación

• Three or more years of research experience after a PhD or five or more after a master's, with recent publications at top venues.
• Three or more years of hands-on research engineering with the modern ML stack: PyTorch or JAX, training and post-training frameworks, inference engines for rollouts, experiments run on multi-GPU clusters.
• Depth in at least one of the following. We hire for one lane and expect you to work across the others: reinforcement learning, verification, modeling, architectures.

Responsabilidades

• Do original research on agents and training systems that learn to do physics, and publish it where it serves the mission.
• Build what you research: training runs, evaluations and harnesses that ship as working systems, not isolated artifacts.
• Go deep in one lane: reinforcement learning and post-training; agents, evaluation and verification; model architectures and training dynamics; scientific and generative modeling.
• Work with the physicists who design verification harnesses and the engineers who build training infrastructure.

Conocimientos

Research experience

Hands-on ML

Multi-GPU training

Deep learning

Educación

PhD or MSc in a relevant field

Herramientas

PyTorch

JAX

Inference engines

Training frameworks

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Physical Superintelligence is a startup with roots at Google, NVIDIA, Harvard, Meta, MIT, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge, and the Perimeter Institute building AI systems to discover new physics at scale. We are seeking AI researchers to build the agents and training systems that learn to do physics.

Our mission is to discover and commercialize transformative physics breakthroughs at scale with artificial superintelligence, safely, verifiably, and for broad public benefit.

The last century’s golden age of physics gave us transistors, lasers, and nuclear energy. We believe artificial superintelligence will unlock the next one. We’re creating the infrastructure to industrialize scientific discovery and usher in this new era.

We have one product: new physics, at scale.

Role and Responsibilities

• Do original research on agents and training systems that learn to do physics, and publish it where it serves the mission.

• Build what you research: training runs, evaluations and harnesses that ship as working systems, not isolated artifacts.

• Go deep in one lane: reinforcement learning and post-training; agents, evaluation and verification; model architectures and training dynamics; scientific and generative modeling.

• Work with the physicists who design verification harnesses and the engineers who build training infrastructure.

What We’re Looking For

• Three or more years of research experience after a PhD, or five or more after a master’s degree, with recent publications at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or comparable physics-ML venues). You can defend the result and you can name the claim you would retract.

• Three or more years of hands‑on research engineering with the modern ML stack: PyTorch or JAX, training and post‑training frameworks, inference engines for rollouts, experiments run on multi‑GPU clusters. You write research code that others reuse, and at least one system you built this way beat a non‑trivial baseline and shipped as a working artifact rather than a notebook.

• Depth in at least one of the following. We hire for one lane and expect you to work across the others:

Nice to Have

• A physics or mathematics background: you can hold a substantive conversation with a domain physicist.

• Distributed training at cluster scale: single GPU to cluster without rewriting, and what breaks at each step.

• Experience applying agents to simulators, scientific tools, games, or rigorous benchmark suites.

• Open‑source contributions or research artifacts the community has adopted.

How We Work

We hold a high technical bar and give people full ownership of their work, from spec to ship to on‑call. We write contracts before logic, test against real systems instead of mocks, and favor simple designs that ship over clever ones that do not. Our development process is AI‑native: we work with agentic coding tools daily, write specs that are legible to humans and agents alike, and lead with leverage.

Location and Compensation

This role is based in Boston. We will consider remote candidates on a case‑by‑case basis. We offer competitive compensation including salary, benefits, and meaningful early‑stage equity. We evaluate on research depth, experimental rigor, systems fluency, and shipping velocity. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diverse perspectives in building platforms for AI‑driven discovery.