Physics Expert, High Energy/Mathematical Physics

Role Overview

Apply advanced expertise in high energy and mathematical physics to help train next-generation AI systems. This remote contract role calls for senior academic or research leaders who can assess complex technical work with rigor, explain nuanced judgments clearly, and provide high-quality real-world input that improves how AI systems reason and perform. Prior AI experience is not required.

Key Responsibilities

• Adjudicate contested or competing physics arguments, solutions, and interpretations within your subfield.
• Compare alternative approaches to a problem, explaining which is stronger, under which assumptions, and in which regimes.
• Define the higher-level criteria used to assess robustness and validity, including critical assumptions and where approximations may fail.
• Provide authoritative, appropriately calibrated assessments while clearly identifying genuine uncertainty and open questions.
• Write rigorous, defensible evaluations suitable for review by senior physicists.
• Use LaTeX, SymPy, Python, and Jupyter as needed to verify or compare technical claims.
• Clearly distinguish unresolved field questions from conclusions supported by the available evidence.

Qualifications

• PhD in physics with demonstrated expertise and scholarly impact in the relevant subfield.
• Current or former Associate Professor, Full Professor, Chair Professor, Principal Investigator, or Group Leader with a record of independent research leadership.
• Active research experience using one or more of the following: AdS/CFT, on-shell gravitational action, Weyl, Fefferman, Graham gauge, or tensor algebra involving boundary-curvature invariants.
• Three to five recent representative publications in the target subfield, with arXiv or DOI references.
• Experience supervising PhD students or postdoctoral researchers, or equivalent leadership in an industry research setting.
• Proficiency with LaTeX, SymPy, Python, and Jupyter. Please identify any gaps in experience with these tools.
• Exceptional written communication, physics mastery, sound judgment in ambiguous cases, meta-level reasoning, and the ability to articulate well-supported conclusions.

Work Terms

• Remote contract engagement.

Compensation

• $80 to $160 per hour.