PSI

PSI

Member of Technical Staff, Physics Research

Boston · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 165 days ago
PythonMachine LearningFEACFDCOMSOLResearch

About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers on agent architecture, training, and evaluation. Write production code that ships into discovery workflows running at scale.
  • engineers work with agentic coding tools daily, write specs that are legible to humans and agents alike, and lead with leverage.

Requirements

  • You have produced verifiable, published, or otherwise externally validated results.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and hands-on experience running and extending physics simulations (CFD, molecular dynamics, FEA, quantum, or comparable), with comfort in high-performance computing environments.
  • You can read and write production code, not just notebooks.
  • A track record working on hard, unsolved problems in fast-paced research environments.
  • Fluency at the physics-ML intersection: you do not need to be an ML expert, but you can read a modern ML paper, reason about what an agent is doing, and have an opinion on how to evaluate it.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with specific simulation platforms such as VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS, GROMACS, OpenFOAM, COMSOL, or comparable.
  • Experience with differentiable physics, physics-informed neural networks, or ML-accelerated simulation.
  • Prior work at a national lab, research institute, or applied research organization at the physics-ML intersection.
  • This role is based in Boston.
  • We evaluate on physics depth, intellectual breadth, and shipping velocity.

Skills

  • Integrate state-of-the-art physics simulations into AI environments. Make computational physics legible to agents and useful to researchers.

Compensation

  • Location and Compensation

Benefits

  • We offer competitive compensation including salary, benefits, and meaningful early-stage equity.

Company info

  • We are seeking engineers to build platform infrastructure at the intersection of computational science, AI systems, and software engineering.

Equal opportunity

  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diverse perspectives in attacking hard problems in science.

This listing is sourced directly from PSI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.