
The TRACE institute is seeking world-class mathematicians, physicists, and AI engineers for a reality-shifting moonshot.
CAREERS
Join a small team working directly with Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash on research rethinking perception, consciousness, and mathematical structures underlying reality, shaping ideas at the forefront of science today.
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MATHEMATICIANS
We seek mathematicians driven to explore the foundations of reality, fluent in abstraction, topology, probability, and dynamical systems. Ideal candidates thrive on hard problems, question assumptions, and can translate deep mathematical structures into testable models of consciousness and perception.
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PHYSICISTS
We seek physicists eager to rethink fundamentals, comfortable with quantum theory, information principles, and new mathematical frameworks. Ideal candidates challenge conventional assumptions, build rigorous conceptual models, and collaborate across disciplines to explore how physical laws emerge from deeper structures underlying perception, information, and consciousness itself.
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AI Engineers
We seek AI engineers skilled in generative models, multi-agent simulations, and advanced optimization. Ideal candidates can prototype novel architectures, explore consciousness-inspired algorithms, and collaborate with mathematicians and physicists to build computational tools that test, simulate, and visualize emerging theories of perception and reality itself.