FirstPrinciples

Physicist, Theo Collaborators Program, Quantum Information

Ontario, Canada - Remote

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 212 days ago

ExpressResearch

About the role

Our long-term vision is to accelerate deep scientific discovery by combining machine reasoning with human scientific judgment.
This is not a tool evaluation program, and it is not a traditional advisory role.
Collaborators engage with a concrete scientific direction, help assess whether the system's reasoning is sound, and contribute to shaping what "good AI-generated physics" should look like.

additional modules and capabilities that would be required to make the reasoning more complete, rigorous, or reliable.
primary areas of expertise

a small, selective group of expert physicists who will work with us to validate, guide, and stress-test the scientific reasoning produced by the AI Physicist in a focused research domain.
The Theo Collaborators Program is open to late-stage PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, early-career faculty, and industry researchers with strong theoretical backgrounds.
We operate as a global nonprofit organization, with a Canadian foundation, a US-based 501(c)(3).
Structural constraints in quantum LDPC codes
Trade-offs between locality, rate, and distance in stabilizer codes
No-go or impossibility results under fault-tolerance assumptions
Information-theoretic bounds relevant to quantum error correction
Fundamental limitations of decoding or logical operations
Work in quantum information theory, QEC, or closely related areas.
Have strong theoretical and mathematical grounding.
Are curious, but appropriately skeptical, about AI-assisted research.
Value rigor, clarity, and intellectual honesty.

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