About this role
Physics Expert (PhD / Postdoc)
Remote contractor role paying $80 to $140 per hour. Apply deep physics expertise to a high-impact customer project helping train next-generation AI systems. No prior AI experience is required; domain knowledge is what matters.
Required Skills
- Physics mastery
- Written technical communication
- Technical problem-solving depth
- Mathematical and computational fluency
Scope of Work
- Solve advanced physics problems from your specialization, delivering rigorous, well-documented derivations and analyses.
- Produce technically precise, clearly written solutions, detailing all assumptions, approximations, and final results using LaTeX mathematical notation.
- Use SymPy, Python, and Jupyter for symbolic or numerical verification and clear computational workflows where relevant.
- Identify and articulate subtleties in problem statements, including special cases, boundary conditions, and dimensional consistency.
- Flag ambiguities in project materials, proposing well-reasoned interpretations and clarifications as needed.
- Iterate on submitted solutions in response to feedback from project reviewers, ensuring corrections are cleanly integrated.
- Uphold rigorous standards in documentation and reproducibility consistent with professional research practice.
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD in physics or advanced-stage PhD candidacy, with active research experience in a relevant subfield.
- Research expertise in one or more of: high energy physics, mathematical physics, biophysics, statistical physics, condensed matter, including moiré systems, magnetism, and PXP/Rydberg, AMO/quantum optics, gravitation, cosmology, astrophysics, quantum information, or optical properties of materials.
- 2–5 recent representative publications from the past ~5 years in your field, with accessible arXiv or DOI records.
- Proficiency with LaTeX for presenting mathematics, and with SymPy, Python, and Jupyter for computational work; willingness to indicate areas for further support if needed.
- Demonstrated excellence in written technical communication, with a track record of producing clear, precise, and well-argued scientific outputs.
- Strong analytical skills, able to isolate key physical principles and provide nuanced solutions to complex problems.
- Availability to engage with the project consistently over an 8–10 week period, approximately 10 hours per week.