Process-Physics Theorist for Control & Modeling

Ultrasonium; Woburn (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Founding team collaboration

IP portfolio

Flexible work arrangement

On-site environment

Job summary

Ultrasonium is seeking a researcher to formalize and model the governing physics that define our platform's control parameters. You will derive analytical and reduced-order models, and guide experiments and simulations with theory in close collaboration with the founding team.

The role emphasizes translating physical understanding into control strategies for a novel engineering problem, with an on-site environment that values autonomy and technical judgment.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master's in Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a relevant engineering field, or equivalent research experience.
• Strong analytical modeling: PDEs, continuum mechanics, transport, and dynamics.
• Excellent physics and mathematics foundation.
• Track record connecting theory to experiment and simulation.

Responsibilities

• Formalize and model the governing physics that set the process control parameters for our platform.
• Derive analytical and reduced-order models; guide experiment and simulation with theory.
• Turn physical understanding into control strategy; work directly with the founding team on a novel engineering problem.

Skills

PDEs

Continuum mechanics

Analytical modeling

Transport and dynamics

Education

PhD or MSc

Tools

PDE Solvers

Job description

Ultrasonium is seeking a researcher to formalize and model the governing physics that define our platform's control parameters. You will derive analytical and reduced-order models, and guide experiments and simulations with theory in close collaboration with the founding team.

The role emphasizes translating physical understanding into control strategies for a novel engineering problem, with an on-site environment that values autonomy and technical judgment.