Assistant Research Programmer

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:

● Computationally 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 (https://www.wolframscience.com/)

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