PhD Residency in AI for Science — Moonshot Research Fellow

Moonshot Factory; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 157,000; Part time

Job summary

X is seeking a PhD Residency in AI for Science for Mountain View, CA. You will be embedded in a moonshot project to solve challenging research problems with autonomous AI systems.

The residency targets students actively pursuing a PhD, with hands-on work in LLM evaluation, Python, and large-scale data processing. Start dates are flexible, with opportunities to collaborate across teams and initiatives.

Qualifications

• Active enrollment in an academic program pursuing a PhD.
• Experience building autonomous AI systems or agentic workflows.
• Hands-on expertise in LLM evaluation, prompting, and large-scale data processing.
• Strong Python skills and experience with large, heterogeneous datasets, APIs, databases, and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with time-series, sequential, or panel data modelling and related methods.
• Understanding of statistical learning, out-of-sample evaluation, and back-testing.
• Experience with data integration, entity resolution, and data provenance.

Responsibilities

• Architect multi-agent systems to automate complex research and accelerate discovery.
• Fine-tune LLMs to parse unstructured data and uncover latent technological trends.

Skills

Autonomous AI

LLM evaluation

Python

Data pipelines

Time-series modelling

Bayesian modelling

Data integration

Education

PhD in quantitative/computational field

Tools

APIs

Databases

Job description

X is seeking a PhD Residency in AI for Science for Mountain View, CA. You will be embedded in a moonshot project to solve challenging research problems with autonomous AI systems.

The residency targets students actively pursuing a PhD, with hands-on work in LLM evaluation, Python, and large-scale data processing. Start dates are flexible, with opportunities to collaborate across teams and initiatives.