Physics Researcher

We are recruiting physics researchers to contribute to the next generation of AI systems for scientific reasoning. We are building models that need to reason about theoretical physics, condensed matter, quantum information, particle physics and high-energy theory, astrophysics and cosmology, atomic/molecular/optical (AMO) physics, plasma physics, biophysics, statistical and computational physics, and mathematical physics at the level of a working researcher. To get there, we need contributors whose own research sits at the frontier.

What you'll do

• Author and review challenging physics problems used to train and evaluate frontier AI models
• Evaluate model outputs on tasks ranging from analytical derivation and mechanism prediction to numerical modeling, experimental design, and literature reasoning
• Surface areas where current models fail — especially the kinds of mistakes a working PhD physicist would catch immediately
• Collaborate with a small program team and other senior contributors

We're looking for researchers whose CV would plausibly include items like:

• First-author or co-first-author publications in journals at the level of Physical Review Letters (PRL), Physical Review X (PRX), Reviews of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, Nature, Science, PNAS, Nature Communications, Physical Review A/B/C/D/E, Physics Letters B, Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Quantum, Communications Physics, or top specialty journals
• Doctoral or postdoctoral training at a top-20 global institution for physics or STEM
• Competitive fellowships such as NSF GRFP, Hertz, DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF), DOE Early Career, Sloan Research Fellow, Packard Fellow, Simons Investigator / Junior Fellow, Moore Foundation, Hubble Fellow (NASA), Einstein Fellow, Sagan Fellow, Kavli (KITP) Fellow, Marie Curie / MSCA, Fulbright, Rhodes, Marshall, Gates Cambridge, Schmidt Science Fellow, Knight-Hennessy, SNSF Postdoc, NSF CAREER, APS Fellow, or equivalent
• Issued patents, spin-out companies, or grants where the contributor was a named PI or co-PI
• International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) Gold/Silver/Bronze medalist
• Currently or recently in an active research role: PhD candidate, postdoc, instructor, faculty, principal scientist, or industry researcher
• Outstanding senior PhD students and recent graduates with strong publication records are explicitly encouraged to apply — years of experience matter less than the depth of the research output.