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AI Research Scientist - Spatial Reasoning

P-1 · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

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About P-1

Backed by NEA.

About the role

We’re seeking an exceptional AI Research Scientist to join our small team of elite researchers and help us push the boundaries of AI applied to the physical world. This role blends cutting-edge AI research with hands-on engineering, and is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of ideas and implementation. Research and develop new approaches for spatial reasoning, geometric understanding, physical reasoning, and structured world modeling in large-scale AI systems.

More about this role

think deeply about how machines reason about the physical world;

have a track record of exceptional research or engineering achievement;

move effortlessly between papers, experiments, and production code;

love difficult problems with no obvious solution…

… you should apply for this role!

At P-1 AI, we are building an AI engineer agent for the physical world named Archie. We maximize Archie’s anthropomorphism so that he fits seamlessly into existing engineering teams and workflows in the form factor of a human engineer. Archie today is at the level of a junior mechanical and electrical engineer, with a quantitative intuition over the product design space and the ability to use complex engineering tools—the same tools his human teammates use. Archie's tech stack includes a custom agentic harness, structured design representation, continual skills learning, and small custom post-trained models (SFT and RLVR) using proprietary semi-synthetic training data sets and environments which create a deep competitive moat. Our ultimate aim is to build engineering ASI. We recently announced a $50 million Series A financing led by NEA, which added former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to our...

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