Physics/AI Jobs

As a hub for the intersection of Physics and AI in the Boston area and beyond, we are happy to share job opportunities at this intersection as we become aware of them.

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IAIFI-Adjacent Jobs

The following positions are at IAIFI-affiliated universities and therefore have the potential for IAIFI involvement; they are not necessarily directly hired by IAIFI.

Faculty Opportunities

Postdoc Opportunities

Postdoctoral researchers at any of the partner institutions may collaborate with IAIFI researchers to become a Junior Investigator.

IAIFI Fellow

IAIFI/MIT
Deadline: 2026-10-07 | Apply

Details ​To facilitate advances in AI+Physics, the IAIFI seeks a talented and interdisciplinary group of researchers at an early stage of their careers to join the IAIFI Fellowship program. The role of an IAIFI Fellow is to spark vital interdisciplinary, multi-investigator, multi-subfield collaborations across some of the primary IAIFI domains of theoretical physics, experimental physics, astrophysics, and foundational AI. Such collaborations have immense power to generate new ideas and approaches in both physics and AI, to facilitate abstracting physics challenges beyond their native domains to inform the development of cutting-edge AI tools, and to instill a common language across disciplines. Our program aims to appoint new postdoctoral IAIFI Fellows each academic year, for a three-year fellowship term each.

Graduate Student Opportunities

IAIFI does not have a dedicated PhD program, but PhD students at any of the partner institutions may collaborate with IAIFI researchers to become a Junior Investigator.

Other Opportunities

Academic Opportunities

Faculty Opportunities

Assistant Professor & Research Associate

The Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI) at TCG CREST, Kolkata
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Details TCG CREST invites applications for the positions of Assistant Professor & Research Associate in the Institute for Advancing Intelligence in Computer Science with research experience in one or more of the following areas: Training and Finetuning LLMs, Multi-modal LLMs, Multi-agent Systems, Reinforcement Learning, and AI in Health Care.

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)/ Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) / Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP, Reinforcement Learning or AI Security/Assurance/Verification

University of Bath, England
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Details The Department of Computer Science wishes to appoint a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) or Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) or Reader (Associate Professor) in AI, specifically Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning and/or AI Security/Assurance/Verification, to join our strong and growing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Group.

Machine Learning - Open Rank Faculty

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Deadline: 2026-08-31 | Apply

Details ​Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is looking for passionate and highly motivated Faculty. The successful candidates will be responsible for delivering high-quality instruction, mentoring students, contributing to curriculum development, and actively engaging in interdisciplinary research. Faculty members will also have the opportunity to collaborate with leading AI researchers, work on cutting-edge projects, and contribute to the university's growth as a hub for AI excellence.

Statistics and Data Science - Associate/Full Professor Tenured

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Deadline: 2026-07-31 | Apply

Details ​Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is looking for passionate and highly motivated Faculty. The Department of Statistics and Data Science invites applications for Associate / Full Professors for a faculty position in Statistics and Data Science. We seek researchers with strong potential in both theoretical and applied statistics. The successful candidate will contribute to high-quality instruction, mentor graduate students, shape curriculum development, and engage in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of statistics, data science, and artificial intelligence(AI).

Statistics and Data Science - Assistant Professor Tenure Track

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Deadline: 2026-07-31 | Apply

Details ​Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is looking for passionate and highly motivated Faculty. The Department of Statistics and Data Science invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track faculty position in Statistics and Data Science. We seek researchers with strong potential in both theoretical and applied statistics. The successful candidate will contribute to high-quality instruction, mentor graduate students, shape curriculum development, and engage in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of statistics, data science, and artificial intelligence(AI).

Postdoc Opportunities

Research Scientist/Postdoctoral Fellow in AI/ML for Physics and Astronomy

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, New Mexico, United States
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Details The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico (UNM) invites applications for one or more Research Scientist/Postdoctoral positions to contribute to a research program applying artificial intelligence and machine learning across several domains of physics and astronomy. The successful candidates will develop an integrated image-processing pipeline and apply it to three distinct problems: rare-event searches in particle detectors (e.g. the Migdal effect and neutrino-less double beta decay), component separation in images of strong gravitational lenses, and transient identification in interferometric radio astronomy. The positions offer an unusual opportunity to develop methods that generalize across experimental particle physics, cosmology, and radio astronomy.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of Toronto, Canada
Deadline: 2026-10-05 | Apply

Details The University of Toronto is pleased to announce the third call for applications for the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Sciences, which brings together the brightest minds who have completed a PhD in the natural sciences or engineering and who aim to pursue a research project that includes the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to their domain. The program will fund cutting edge applications of AI in the natural sciences and engineering and create a community of interdisciplinary leaders.
Applicants must demonstrate clear expertise and promise within their field of study. Experience with AI is not a requirement, but applicants must have a desire to learn new AI methodologies that stand to accelerate discoveries in their domain. These Fellowships will fund research and provide training in AI and related computational skills to support new directions in the application of AI.

Postdoctoral and Doctoral (PhD) Researchers in NLP & AI (m/f/d)

UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Deadline: 2026-07-24 | Apply

Details The UKP Lab, led by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych, is one of Europe’s leading groups in Natural Language Processing and is recruiting postdoctoral researchers to join a highly international team at the frontier of trustworthy and applied AI. We combine fundamental research with open-source tools used worldwide (e.g., Sentence Transformers, AdapterHub), and are embedded in a rich ecosystem — ELLIS, Konrad Zuse School ELIZA, hessian.AI, and ATHENE. We are looking for outstanding researchers who want to shape how humans and AI systems work together — and ensure that they do so reliably, safely, and in the service of people.

Other Academic Opportunities

Multiple Research and Faculty Positions in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI) at TCG CREST, Kolkata
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Details The Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI) at TCG CREST, Kolkata, is inviting applications for multiple positions at different levels, including Assistant Professor, Research Associate, and Project Associate.

Lecturer Pool - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

The University of California, Berkeley
Deadline: 2027-02-01 | Apply

Details ​The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach Electrical Engineering or Computer Science courses should an opening arise. These are not tenure‐track positions – selected candidates will hold the title of Lecturer. Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from semester to semester, depending on the needs of the department. Due to budget restrictions, no funding is available for visa or relocation expenses.

Industry Opportunities

Research Scientist, Physics x AI

Siemens Corporation, Multiple Locations
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Details As a Physics x AI Research Scientist, you will explore and build the next generation of scalable, generalizable physics-aware foundation models. We actively welcome candidates from a broad range of backgrounds—including fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, electrical engineering, systems engineering, and biological domains such as protein folding—who are passionate about encoding physical, biological, or engineering priors into modern AI systems. You’ll focus on architectures (especially transformers) that move beyond the limitations of narrow, hard-coded models into robust solutions that generalize across geometries, conditions, and disciplines.