Technology
Industry
201-500
Employees
Mission & Purpose
X is a moonshot factory. Our mission is to invent and launch breakthrough technologies that we hope could make the world a radically better place.
- Must be enrolled in an academic program and working towards completing a PhD
- Minimum Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing an MS or PhD in physics, engineering, computer science, mathematics, or a related field
- Solid Python coding skills with an emphasis on software development best practices including code organization, testing, and readability
- Experience with the Python numerical and scientific computing stack (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, etc.)
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Past work involving differentiable physics simulators, adjoint methods, “physics for machine learning,” or “machine learning for physics”
- Research experience using modern machine learning libraries such as JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
- Research experience with numerical methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations
- Experience with applying constrained optimization techniques and algorithms (e.g. global optimization, local optimization, combinatorial optimization), especially in the domain of topology and shape optimization
- Experience with using or developing computational electromagnetic simulators (FDTD, FDFD, FEM, RCWA, etc.)
- Experience developing surrogate models for applications in physics and scientific computing
- Demonstrated contributions to open source projects in the area of scientific computing