University of Wisconsin - Madison, Physics, and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics-Joi[...]

Job type: Postdoctoral Researchers

Posted: November 19, 2025

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Physics Department and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics invite applications for a joint 3-year postdoctoral position in AI for theoretical physics. The selected postdoc will spend the first year at UW Madison and the following two years at Perimeter Institute, with frequent travels in both directions. We are looking for candidates with a background in any area of theoretical physics and a solid interest in AI Reasoning. Prior publications in AI for physics are a bonus but not required.

Areas of Interest

• Agentic approaches and test-time scaling methods.
• Symbolic verification and tool usage.
• Methods for novel research in theoretical physics with LLMs (e.g. combining LLMs with tree search or evolutionary algorithms).
• Developing training and benchmarking data (e.g.
• Fine-tuning of models with Reinforceme...