Condensed Matter Physicist (PhD)
Posted 3 hours ago
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About the Role
This role centers on a specialized benchmark project aimed at testing if advanced artificial intelligence can achieve research-caliber reasoning in physics, surpassing basic textbook-style exercises. We are recruiting skilled physicists to help develop, solve, assess, and audit intricate problems tailored to their precise research niches. This position focuses on high-quality, research-oriented tasks where you must provide comprehensive, logical steps that enable an expert in the same field to verify your results. Assignments are customized based on your specific scientific expertise. You will focus on one of nineteen specialized categories, such as topological crystalline insulators, magnetic space group analysis, one-dimensional field theory, or parafermion zero modes. We conduct precise matching, so you must prove a history of published work specifically regarding the listed phenomena rather than general knowledge in the broader field. Your contributions are vital for determining whether AI models can execute tasks at the same level as professional researchers.
Requirements
- You must hold a PhD in condensed matter physics or a related discipline.
- The ideal candidates include research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, though senior PhD students with a robust first-author publication history will be considered.
- You are required to submit a verified portfolio consisting of three to five representative research papers, preferably published within the last five years, with an emphasis on first authorship.
- You must show a track record of published research specifically related to the phenomena on our project list, as broad experience is not enough.
- You must possess functional proficiency in Python, LaTeX, Jupyter, and SymPy.
- You must demonstrate at least a B2 level of English proficiency for effective communication.
Responsibilities
- You will tackle physics problems at a research level within your designated area of expertise.
- Your tasks may include authoring new problems, resolving existing complexities, performing peer reviews, or auditing the reasoning of other contributors.
- You are required to document your reasoning clearly so that another specialist can perform an independent verification of your work.
- Depending on your specific area of assignment, you will apply technical research methods such as many-body numerics, field-theoretic approaches, response and transport analysis, band theory and topology, or scattering and symmetry analysis.
Benefits & Perks
- The position is entirely remote and asynchronous with no set operating hours.
- You will commit to 10 hours per week over a period of 8 to 10 weeks.
- Compensation ranges from $80 to $110 per hour, depending on the level of alignment between your background and the specific research subdomain.
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