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The PSI Fellowship is designed for exceptional physicists who want to work at the frontier of AI-accelerated scientific discovery for 3 to 6 months full-time, with the goal of producing substantive technical contributions and, where appropriate, publishable research.\nOur mission is to discover and commercialize transformative physics breakthroughs at scale with artificial superintelligence, safely, verifiably, and for broad public benefit.\nThe last century's golden age of physics gave us transistors, lasers, and nuclear energy. We believe artificial superintelligence will unlock the next one. We're creating the infrastructure to industrialize scientific discovery and usher in this new era.\nWe have one product: new physics, at scale.\nRole and Responsibilities\nCollaborate directly with PSI's founding team and technical leadership on high-impact research at the intersection of physics and AI.\nWork on projects aligned with your expertise, such as AI-for-physics benchmarks, physics discovery agents, verification and interpretability, post-training for scientific reasoning, or human-AI scientific collaboration.\nProduce substantive contributions to PSI's technical roadmap and, where appropriate, publishable research that advances AI for science.\nUse PSI's compute and tooling to ship working systems, not isolated research artifacts. 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