Head of Physics
Physical Superintelligence • Competitive / DOE
Head of Physics
> ROLE 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. 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.
> CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Physics is the organization responsible for running frontier physics research programs and for the scientific assets the rest of the company depends on: verified problem sets, evaluation and verification support for AI training, and simulation integration.
- Lead the organization. Own the people, the execution of the physics research portfolio, and its delivery on the platform.
- Run physics research programs at scale. Own execution across the portfolio: staffing, pace, rigor, and the discipline to stop projects that are not converging.
> HARD REQUIREMENTS & SPECS
- A PhD in physics and a physics research record the field takes seriously: published, cited, externally validated work in at least one domain, with the breadth to supervise work outside your specialty.
- At least three years of direct people management: hiring, performance reviews, and career development for the people who reported to you.
- Real fluency at the physics-ML intersection. You do not need to be an ML researcher, but you can reason about what an AI system is doing, design a verification process that distinguishes insight from artifact, and hold your own with AI researchers.
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