Physion Labs
Research Scientist
Bellevue, WA / Palo Alto / Boston · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Education
- Non-traditional backgrounds welcome; credentials are not the focus.
About the job
Conduct research on multimodal reasoning, world models, and reinforcement learning, and take research directions through to deployed production systems.
What you'll do
- Work with the founding team on multimodal reasoning, world models, and reinforcement learning.
- Own research directions end to end, from problem framing to deployed systems.
- Build production-grade systems and help set the company’s research standards.
What they ask for
- Track record of deploying deep learning systems at scale.
- Evidence of high-impact execution building important systems or research.
- Strong ownership, speed, first-principles thinking, and problem-solving.
Pay
Competitive salary + founding-level equity (top candidates may receive up to 2%)
Tools
deep learning, multimodal reasoning, world models, reinforcement learning
AI focus
Research and build AI systems involving multimodal reasoning, world models, and reinforcement learning, with a focus on making world models behave correctly over time.
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