Member of Technical Staff
Causal Labs
Member of Technical Staff
Causal Labs
Trains physics AI models to forecast weather
Our mission is general causal intelligence; AI that is capable of (1) predicting the future and (2) identifying the actions to alter it.
To achieve this breakthrough, we are building a Large Physics foundation Model (LPM) because physical systems, unlike text or images, are governed by verifiable cause and effect. We believe that scaling on physics will enable an understanding of causality required to predict and control physical systems, starting with weather.
Our founding team has built and deployed AI against the physical world in robotics, drug discovery, and particle physics at institutions like DeepMind, Waymo, Cruise, Insitro, Nabla Bio, and CERN.
We look for researchers who are excited to tackle unsolved problems. Predicting how physical systems evolve means learning from observations that language and vision models were not built for — sparse sensors, point clouds, hyperspectral imagery, physical fields — at a scale that dwarfs what is used to train even today's frontier LLMs. Your mission is to design the architectures and training recipes that turn these multimodal observations into a model that predicts the future of the physical world.
Responsibilities
Design and implement novel model architectures and training algorithms for learning from massive, multimodal physical data
Solve core modeling problems unique to physical prediction: encoding heterogeneous and irregularly-sampled modalities, stable long-horizon rollouts, and probabilistic forecasting
Run experiments and ablations that connect modeling and data decisions to predictive skill, including which data sources and mixtures most improve the model
Work across the full ML stack — data, model, eval, and infrastructure — to take ideas from prototype to scaled training runs
Stay up-to-date on research to bring new ideas to work
What we're looking for
We value a relentless approach to problem-solving, rapid execution, and the ability to quickly learn in unfamiliar domains.
Strong grasp of machine learning fundamentals, with depth in at least one relevant domain (e.g. sequence or world models, computer vision, sensor fusion, generative modeling, physics-informed NNs)
Experience training large-scale models and the ability to understand experimental results through careful analysis and ablation studies
Familiarity with distributed training and the systems considerations of scaling models
A track record of turning open-ended research problems into production models
Trains physics AI models to forecast weather
Causal Labs is an AI research company building a foundation model of physical systems for industries whose operations turn on the weather. The company trains on atmospheric sensor and observation data rather than text or images, a domain where cause and effect are governed by physics and yesterday's prediction can be scored against what happened. It runs early pilots with commercial partners and pairs researchers with engineers who deploy the models on customer data. Unlike conventional forecasters, which report what conditions are likely, it is also trying to identify which interventions would change an outcome. The company's goal is to make AI reason about cause and effect by grounding it in the most heavily observed physical system available.
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