--- title: 'Member of Technical Staff, AI Research at Physical Superintelligence' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-ai-research-physical-superintelligence-boston-j7tkpzcyvsfa' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-14' --- # Member of Technical Staff, AI Research at Physical Superintelligence - **Company:** Physical Superintelligence - **Location:** Boston, MA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/psi/0ea93698-11ba-4bbf-8eed-aefbe881cb07/application **Skills:** Reinforcement learning, Machine Learning frameworks, Distributed training, AI agents, Training infrastructure, PPO, SAC, MuZero, Multi-agent self-play, Search-augmented methods, PyTorch, JAX, Ray, XLA, Accelerate, Simulation, Game engines, Benchmark suites > Build and train AI agents and training systems to learn physics reasoning and scientific tool use. Design evaluation workflows and benchmarks to distinguish genuine reasoning from pattern matching. Collaborate with physicists and engineers to ship end-to-end systems for AI-driven discovery. ## Job description ## 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 AI researchers to build the agents and training systems that learn to do physics. 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. ## Role and Responsibilities - Do original research on agents and training systems that learn to do physics, and publish it where it serves the mission. - Build what you research: training runs, evaluations and harnesses that ship as working systems, not isolated artifacts. - Go deep in one lane: reinforcement learning and post-training; agents, evaluation and verification; model architectures and training dynamics; scientific and generative modeling. - Work with the physicists who design verification harnesses and the engineers who build training infrastructure. ## What We're Looking For - Three or more years of research experience after a PhD, or five or more after a master's degree, with recent publications at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or comparable physics-ML venues). You can defend the result and you can name the claim you would retract. - Three or more years of hands-on research engineering with the modern ML stack: PyTorch or JAX, training and post-training frameworks, inference engines for rollouts, experiments run on multi-GPU clusters. You write research code that others reuse, and at least one system you built this way beat a non-trivial baseline and shipped as a working artifact rather than a notebook. - Depth in at least one of the following. We hire for one lane and expect you to work across the others: - Reinforcement learning and post-training: policy optimization, reward design, RLHF, RLVR, GRPO, RL for language models and for control. - Agents, evaluation and verification: tool use, long-horizon reasoning, memory and harnesses, evals, verifiers, reward models, instrumentation that separates reasoning from gaming. - Model architectures and training methods: transformers, state-space and graph models, neural operator and surrogate architectures for physical fields and meshes, scaling laws, optimization, training dynamics. - Scientific and generative modeling: learning from simulators, physics-informed and conservation-aware models, out-of-distribution behaviour, diffusion and generative models, code generation with checkable results. ## Nice to Have - A physics or mathematics background: you can hold a substantive conversation with a domain physicist. - Distributed training at cluster scale: single GPU to cluster without rewriting, and what breaks at each step. - Experience applying agents to simulators, scientific tools, games, or rigorous benchmark suites. - Open-source contributions or research artifacts the community has adopted. ## How We Work We hold a high technical bar and give people full ownership of their work, 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: we work with agentic coding tools daily, write specs that are legible to humans and agents alike, and lead with leverage. Location and Compensation This role is hybrid, three days a week in person in our Cambridge, MA office. We will consider remote candidates on a case-by-case basis. We offer competitive compensation including salary, benefits, and meaningful early-stage equity. We evaluate on research depth, experimental rigor, systems fluency, and shipping velocity. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diverse perspectives in building platforms for AI-driven discovery. ## 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. 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