FirstPrinciples - Program Manager, AI-native Physicist Fellowship
Requirements
• Strong experience in program management, operations, recruiting, community-building, talent programs, or ecosystem development • Exceptional communicator capable of engaging credibly with researchers, technical teams, and external partners • Highly organized and capable of managing multiple moving pieces simultaneously • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from scratch • Strong judgment and high ownership mentality • Have a bias toward action. You move quickly, solve problems proactively, and figure things out in environments with limited precedent • Experience working with technical or research-heavy teams is a strong plus • Bonus points if you naturally gravitate toward identifying exceptional talent, emerging communities, or unconventional thinkers before broader institutions recognize them.
Responsibilities
• Recruit and source exceptional fellows, researchers, and technical talent globally • Define and manage the end-to-end fellowship application, review and selection process • Coordinate and engage with the external advisory committee and reviewers • Partner closely with the broader FirstPrinciples ecosystem’s technical and research teams to support fellows throughout the program • Act as a primary operational point of contact for fellows during the fellowship lifecycle • Organize cohort programming, workshops, onboarding, and communications • Help refine program operations, processes, evaluation criteria and reporting as the program evolves • Track and report on program metrics, timelines, budgets, deliverables, and cohort progress • Build and maintain relationships across the AI + science ecosystem (research labs, universities, communities, conferences, frontier AI organizations, etc.) • Identify emerging researchers, communities, and workflows at the edge of AI-native science • Help shape and disseminate the long-term operational playbook for AI-native scientific programs
Benefits
• We’re launching a new category of scientific programs at the intersection of AI and frontier research, starting with the AI-native Physicist Fellowship. These programs are designed to support researchers developing rigorous AI-native scientific workflows and exploring what AI-native scientific discovery looks like in practice. • This is not a traditional grants program. The fellowship is an early effort focused on understanding how frontier AI systems can be integrated into serious scientific research workflows. • This role exists because these programs require strong operational ownership and active curation. We need someone who can identify high-potential researchers, run high-signal selection processes, build trusted relationships with fellows and advisors, and help create an outstanding experience for researchers working at the frontier of AI and science. • You’ll sit at the center of the program: shaping the cohort, coordinating across advisors and internal teams, and ensuring fellows have the support, infrastructure, and context they need to do meaningful work. • Help shape one of the earliest large-scale AI-native scientific fellowship programs • Work closely with frontier researchers, builders, and technical teams exploring the future of scientific discovery • Operate at the intersection of AI, research, and frontier science • Build programs that could meaningfully influence how future scientific research is conducted • Help define a new category of scientific infrastructure for the AI era
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