Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI - psi

OVERVIEW

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

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. We're creating the infrastructure to industrialize scientific discovery and usher in this new era.

We have one product: new physics, at scale.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with customers

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Five or more years building ML systems in production with grounding in applied physics, computational science, or engineering, at companies or labs known for scientific rigor. You have written ML code that solved a real physics or engineering problem, not just synthetic benchmarks.
• Strong physics literacy in at least one quantitative domain. You can read a domain paper, hold a technical conversation with a senior domain engineer, and reason about non-linear trade-offs between accuracy, speed, and extrapolation risk.
• Demonstrated ability to build ML models, simulations, or digital twins for physics or engineering problems. You have shipped systems that held up under real-world distribution shift, not just on the training set.
• Customer-facing engineering instincts. You can walk a real-world environment with operators, communicate technically with PhD researchers and pragmatically with practitioners in the same week, and ship working artifacts rather than slide decks.

NICE TO HAVE

• PhD or master's in physics, applied physics, engineering, computational science, or a comparable quantitative discipline.
• Hands-on experience with simulation tools (OpenFOAM, Ansys, COMSOL, or comparable) and the trade-offs between high-fidelity simulation and faster, learning-based alternatives.
• Experience with digital twins, physics-informed neural networks, neural operators, or other domain-specific ML architectures.

HOW WE WORK

We are engineering-led. Engineers own problems end-to-end, from spec to ship to on-call. We write contracts before logic, test against real systems instead of mocks, and favor simple designs that ship over clever ones that do not. Our development process is AI-native: engineers work with agentic coding tools daily, write specs that are legible to humans and agents alike, and lead with leverage.

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