FirstPrinciples Research Fellow
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FirstPrinciplesArtificial Intelligence
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Machine LearningNLP
Requirements
- PhD or postdoctoral status in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Theoretical Physics, or related fields.
- Strong builder instincts with a track record of translating abstract theory into computational systems.
- Experience in model architectures, representation learning, or reasoning systems.
- Experience in mathematical, physical, or formal reasoning applied to fundamental problems.
- Ability to operate independently and own problems end-to-end.
- Commitment to 6-12 month engagement with full-time or equivalent capacity.
- Value rigor, clarity, and intellectual honesty.
Responsibilities
- Design and test novel model architectures combining NLP, symbolic reasoning, and scientific workflows.
- Develop embedding representations for physical concepts, equations, and mathematical objects.
- Investigate and recommend alternatives to transformer-based architectures.
- Design and execute experiments to guide next-generation architecture development.
- Build reinforcement learning loops for autonomous internal thought experiments.
- Automate data ingestion pipelines for scientific literature and experimental data.
- Create benchmarks to measure physical understanding and mathematical reasoning.
- Manage model training jobs, compute usage, and sandbox environments.
- Build evaluation frameworks to identify model strengths and failure modes.
- Communicate technical trade-offs and present research updates.
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