Assistant Research Programmer
Wolfram Institute
Summary
We're looking for Wolfram Language programmers to help develop formal computational models to systematically answer foundational questions in biology, medicine, and machine learning.
Job description
What you'll do
We're looking for Wolfram Language programmers to help develop formal computational models to systematically answer foundational questions in biology, medicine, and machine learning.
Some questions our group, led by Stephen Wolfram, is currently studying:
- Computational Modeling of the Origin of Life - How did life originate on earth, and how could it originate elsewhere?
- Biological Complexity - Can we formalize (computationally) Darwin's theory of natural selection and the proliferation of complex forms in biology?
- Computational Clinical Trials - What are, if any, the fundamental limitations to how well treatments can be tested in medicine?
- Laws of Machine Learning - What ubiquitous features of machine learning exist and can we capture those with minimal computational models?
For this role, your main responsibility will be to assist in the writing of Wolfram Language to run and visualize computational experiments. This will involve exploring different parameter spaces, fine-tuning visualizations, and documenting and publishing relevant code.
Who you are
Required Skills
- Fluent Wolfram Language programmer with the ability to write clean, concise and efficient Wolfram Language code for the exploration and visualization of various computational models like cellular automata, Turing machines, etc.
- An understanding and enthusiasm for the Wolfram approach to science
Desirable Skills
- College-level mathematical ability
- Ability to author and understand highly optimized code in high-performance languages (C, Rust) for exploring computational models
- General interest and enthusiasm for scientific fields like biology, medicine, machine learning etc.
- Ability to articulate complex results clearly and concisely
Requirements
- Fluent Wolfram Language programmer
- Ability to write clean, concise and efficient Wolfram Language code
- Experience exploring and visualizing computational models like cellular automata and Turing machines
- Understanding and enthusiasm for the Wolfram approach to science
- College-level mathematical ability
- Ability to author and understand highly optimized code in C or Rust
- Interest in biology, medicine, and machine learning
- Ability to articulate complex results clearly and concisely
Company overview
The Wolfram Institute is a non-profit research organization founded in 2022 by Stephen Wolfram and James Douglas Boyd, dedicated to advancing the foundational study of physical, technological, natural, and abstract systems through computation. As an initiative of the Wolfram Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, the Institute focuses on developing novel approaches to fundamental science using computational methods. The organization serves as the new home for the Wolfram Physics Project and conducts research across multiple domains including physics, mathematics, biology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and economics. Employing techniques from hypergraph theory, computational systems, symbolic computation, and automata theory, the Institute builds upon the technological legacy of Wolfram Research and Stephen Wolfram's intellectual contributions. Committed to open science practices, the Wolfram Institute engages with a global community through livestreamed research meetings, transparent sharing of results, and collaborative projects that explore the computational universe and develop new paradigms for scientific discovery.