Scientific Research Expert (AI)

Location: Remote — Worldwide; listed locations include the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.

Company

Boutique consultancy providing IT professional services and engineering talent solutions.

What you will do

• Identify foundational open problems, theoretical bounds, and computational challenges suitable for rigorous investigation.
• Guide AI models and agents through research workflows involving proofs, algorithms, numerical experiments, simulations, and high-performance computing.
• Validate research results through proof verification, computational reproduction, formal methods, and other rigorous evaluation techniques.
• Assess the novelty, correctness, and scientific significance of research outputs against current literature.
• Document attempted solutions, partial progress, model limitations, and recurring reasoning failures in concise research memos.
• Recommend promising research directions and establish standards for distinguishing genuine scientific progress from unsupported results.

Requirements

• Approximately 7–10+ years of active research experience in computer science, mathematical physics, computational physics, or a related discipline.
• Strong record of scholarly contributions in leading conferences, journals, or other recognized research venues.
• Hands-on experience with numerical analysis, simulation, algorithm implementation, or high-performance computing.
• Ability to rigorously evaluate technical claims, verify results, and identify gaps in mathematical or computational reasoning.
• Strong familiarity with relevant research literature, analytical skills, technical writing, and research communication.
• Excellent written English and the ability to work independently on ambiguous research problems.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contract work with a worldwide location scope.
• Independent work focused on frontier AI research and rigorous scientific judgment.
• Opportunity to contribute across theoretical, computational, and mathematical research domains.