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title: 'Head of Experimentation at Physical Superintelligence'
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# Head of Experimentation at Physical Superintelligence

- **Company:** Physical Superintelligence
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/psi/0cb6f147-b3dd-452c-bca0-b260ffba9a5a

## Job description

## Overview

Physical Superintelligence (PSI) combines physics, AI, and engineering to accelerate scientific discovery and develop consequential technologies.

We are seeking a Head of Experimentation to build and lead our physical experimental program. You will turn scientific questions into decisive experiments, develop the team and laboratory capabilities to execute them, and ensure that results withstand independent scrutiny.

This is a hands-on leadership role, working closely with PSI’s Physics, AI, and Engineering teams.

## Responsibilities

- Set experimental priorities and translate research objectives into executable programs with clear milestones and decision criteria.
- Lead the design, commissioning, and operation of experimental apparatus and measurement systems.
- Recruit, manage, and develop experimental physicists, research engineers, and technicians.
- Establish rigorous standards for calibration, data quality, uncertainty analysis, and reproducibility.
- Connect experimental results to modeling, AI research, and further technology development.
- Manage equipment plans, budgets, schedules, and shared laboratory resources, with appropriate safety oversight.
- Stay technically engaged: review experimental designs, troubleshoot difficult measurements, and make evidence-based decisions about where to invest or stop.

## What We Are Looking For

- Eight or more years of experimental research or scientific instrumentation experience, including at least three years of direct people management.
- A demonstrated record of personally designing, building, and operating complex experimental systems and producing defensible results.
- Deep expertise in at least one experimental physics discipline, with the breadth and judgment to lead specialists outside your field.
- Strong command of calibration, measurement uncertainty, systematic errors, and experimental controls.
- Experience hiring technical teams and managing laboratory resources, equipment budgets, and demanding development schedules.
- Fluency in scientific programming, data analysis, and instrument automation, with the ability to use and critically evaluate AI-assisted tools.
- A PhD in physics, applied physics, engineering, or an equivalent record of experimental achievement.

## Nice to Have

- Experience establishing a laboratory or developing first-of-a-kind scientific instruments.
- Experience translating experimental results into reliable prototypes or industrial applications.
- Experience with AI applied to science and experimental design.
- Work spanning multidisciplinary research teams, industry, or national laboratories.

## How We Work

We value ambitious scientific judgment, technical ownership, and reliable execution. We use AI throughout our work and hold its outputs to the same evidentiary standards as any other research. Leaders are expected to remain close to the science, the apparatus, and the people doing the work.

## About Physical Superintelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Building the world’s first vertically integrated factory for physical superintelligence to discover and commercialize transformative physics breakthroughs at scale with artificial superintelligence.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Public Benefit Corporation)
- **Headquarters**: Boston/Cambridge, MA, USA and San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (company website launched April 2026)
- **Founders**: Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross and Matthew Pines (co-founders) [theinnermostloop.substack.com](https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/physical-superintelligence)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Artificial Intelligence, Physics R&D, Scientific Discovery
- Target customers: B2B – organizations with hard physics problems (e.g., energy, materials, defense); also open-source community for its AI copilot.
- Mission or purpose statement: “Discover and commercialize transformative physics breakthroughs at scale with artificial superintelligence – safely, verifiably, and for broad public benefit.” [psi.inc](https://www.psi.inc/)

## Products & Services
- **[Get Physics Done (GPD)]**: An open-source AI copilot built by physicists for physicists – the first agentic AI physicist. Released as open-source software (GitHub stars: 835). [github.com](https://github.com/psi-oss)
- **Vertical Integration Platform**: PSI is building an end-to-end system that reasons like a theorist, validates like a computational physicist, tests like an experimentalist, and drives breakthroughs through to commercial deployment. [psi.inc](https://www.psi.inc/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Open-source repository “Get Physics Done” has 835 GitHub stars; team size ~20 employees (physicists, engineers, AI researchers) [theinnermostloop.substack.com](https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/physical-superintelligence)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed. Board includes Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross (co-founder). Selectively partnering with organizations facing hard physics problems. [theinnermostloop.substack.com](https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/physical-superintelligence)
- **Growth Signals**: Actively hiring for multiple roles (AI research, engineering, physics); open-sourcing internal tools; expanding team in Boston and San Francisco. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/psi)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in physical superintelligence**: Vertically integrated approach from theory to commercial deployment, unlike pure AI labs or traditional R&D.
- **World-class talent pool**: Team from Google, OpenAI, Meta, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Johns Hopkins, Perimeter Institute [theinnermostloop.substack.com](https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/physical-superintelligence).
- **Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)**: Governance structure designed for broad public benefit from day one, enabling long-term, mission-aligned work.
- **Open-source strategy**: GPD lowers barriers for physicists and builds community trust and adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- **Industrialize scientific discovery**: Accelerate physics from a field of incremental progress to rapid, systematic breakthroughs.
- **Scale AI for physics**: Build infrastructure that combines AI reasoning, computational validation, and experimental testing.
- **Selective partnerships**: Work with organizations whose hardest problems demand fundamentally new physics.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Opportunity to work on unlocking the next golden age of physics (transistors, lasers, nuclear energy → new physics).
- **Remote/hybrid**: Hiring for Boston/Cambridge and remote roles [vanlett.com](https://vanlett.com/matthew_pines).
- **Small, high-impact team**: ~20 people from top institutions; flat, fast-moving culture.
- **Cutting-edge tech**: Build with AI superintelligence, open-source tools, and real physics experiments.
- **Public Benefit Corporation**: Work that prioritizes societal benefit alongside discovery.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but likely competitive for a well-funded AI startup.

## Sources
1. [psi.inc](https://www.psi.inc/)
2. [theinnermostloop.substack.com](https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/physical-superintelligence)
3. [github.com/psi-oss](https://github.com/psi-oss)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/psi](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/psi)
5. [vanlett.com/matthew_pines](https://vanlett.com/matthew_pines)

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