Research Scientist, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing - Proved End to End

The Infinity Fellowship; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Visa sponsorship

Hybrid work model

Job summary

The Infinity Fellowship in the San Francisco Bay Area invites a select group of researchers to spend a year applying a frontier AI instrument to unsolved problems. This is a full-time, salaried appointment with relocation support and visa sponsorship for international Fellows, located hybrid in the SF East Bay.

Proposals are welcome, with the inaugural cohort convening in September and decisions provided within a week of submission. Top Fellows may move into permanent research positions.

Job description

We are a frontier artificial-intelligence laboratory, still in stealth, established for a single purpose: to build an AI capable of original discovery — a system that does not merely retrieve and recombine what is already known, but reasons toward genuinely new understanding of the problems put to it. We hold that an instrument able to truly discover is among the most consequential technologies humanity will ever build, and we are building it.

Our system has already produced results beyond the reach of any human team. We have demonstrated its power on a small number of problems. The purpose of this fellowship is to establish how far that power extends.

This is an invitation to bring a small number of researchers who will form the inaugural cohort of the Infinity Fellowship who will spend a year aiming this instrument at the hardest unsolved problems in their fields.

You choose the problems — the ones shelved because they demanded a decade. You carry each from formulation to validated result. You publish as lead author.

The terms are plain: a full-time salaried appointment of roughly one year, hybrid in the San Francisco East Bay, with relocation support and visa sponsorship for international Fellows. It pays like a strong postdoc. No background in AI is required; we weigh the ability to learn above experience with any method. Top-performing Fellows will be offered permanent research positions.

Proposals received by October 23 will be considered first for the inaugural cohort, which convenes in September. Every application receives an answer within a week.

Few are present, in any era, at the founding of a new instrument of discovery.

Bring the problem worth your year.

Other Info

For US Remote/Hybrid: This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. export control regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.

For International Remote: This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to applicable export control regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization.