Program Manager, AI-native Physicist Fellowship

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🕒 July 27

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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FirstPrinciples

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Science • SaaS

FirstPrinciples is a research company building AI systems for discovery in fundamental science. It develops domain-specialized models and tools (branded Theo: Theo Collaborator, Theo Conjecture, and Theo, the AI Physicist) to assist the scientific process—hypothesis generation, symbolic reasoning, tool integration, validation loops, and reproducible research objects. The company emphasizes transparency, stewardship of knowledge as a public good, and alignment with the scientific community. Technical claims include multiple fine-tuned models across physics domains, a model family with 120B+ parameters trained on a curated corpus of 3M+ scientific papers, and internal experiments in areas like quantum information.

📋 Description

• Recruit and source exceptional fellows, researchers, and technical talent globally • Define and manage the end-to-end fellowship application, review and selection process • Coordinate and engage with the external advisory committee and reviewers • Partner closely with the broader FirstPrinciples ecosystem’s technical and research teams to support fellows throughout the program • Act as a primary operational point of contact for fellows during the fellowship lifecycle • Organize cohort programming, workshops, onboarding, and communications • Help refine program operations, processes, evaluation criteria and reporting as the program evolves • Track and report on program metrics, timelines, budgets, deliverables, and cohort progress • Build and maintain relationships across the AI + science ecosystem (research labs, universities, communities, conferences, frontier AI organizations, etc.) • Identify emerging researchers, communities, and workflows at the edge of AI-native science • Help shape and disseminate the long-term operational playbook for AI-native scientific programs

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in program management, operations, recruiting, community-building, talent programs, or ecosystem development • Exceptional communicator capable of engaging credibly with researchers, technical teams, and external partners • Highly organized and capable of managing multiple moving pieces simultaneously • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from scratch • Strong judgment and high ownership mentality • Have a bias toward action. You move quickly, solve problems proactively, and figure things out in environments with limited precedent • Experience working with technical or research-heavy teams is a strong plus • Familiarity with frontier AI, scientific research, academia, startups, or technical communities is required. The ideal candidate has experience operating across multiple of these environments. • Bonus points if you naturally gravitate toward identifying exceptional talent, emerging communities, or unconventional thinkers before broader institutions recognize them.

🏖️ Benefits

• Help shape one of the earliest large-scale AI-native scientific fellowship programs • Work closely with frontier researchers, builders, and technical teams exploring the future of scientific discovery • Operate at the intersection of AI, research, and frontier science • Build programs that could meaningfully influence how future scientific research is conducted • Help define a new category of scientific infrastructure for the AI era