# Senior Research Scientist

About us Re-architecting Engineering for the Age of Intelligence PhysicsX is the physics AI company for industrials. The company’s mission is to accelerate hardware innovation by overhauling what industrial engineering and manufacturing look like today. PhysicsX is building a new simulation software stack to deliver deep physics AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle. The company partners with leading organisations in aerospace & defence, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy & renewables, supporting them on some of their most critical and complex challenges. PhysicsX is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London, New York, and Singapore and an expanding presence in the Bay Area. Note: We are currently recruiting for multiple levels and positions, however please only apply for the role that best aligns with your skillset and career goals. What you will do Own Research work-streams at a high-level to deliver outcomes.Align priorities with problem stakeholders, internal and external. Set the technical direction for the stream and apply judgement and taste to drive progress. Plan roadmaps with clear milestones for key decisions and outcome

- **Id**: 35131
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/physicsx-principal-research-scientist>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-27T11:43:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:53:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 200
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7932
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Equity, Health insurance, Parental leave, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Simulation & Digital Twin Software, Industrial AI, AI for Science

## Company

- **Id**: 251
- **Name**: PhysicsX
- **Domain**: physicsx.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/physicsx>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0.2
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 98
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Diffusion Models** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **SciPy** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 199

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-04-27T11:43:03Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-08-03T19:28:44Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-11T04:04:37Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.672
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 198
- **Expected fill days**: 98
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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