PhD Fellowship

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Root Access is a frontier electronics company. We are a NYC-based startup funded by top investors. Our team is a passionate mix of engineers across electrical, firmware, software, and machine learning.

ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP

This is a unique opportunity to lead research on physics-informed neural networks. You will work alongside our team as a member of technical staff during the fellowship to conduct research, exploring challenging scientific questions, and help inform our approach to advancing the field of electronics.

WHO THIS IS FOR

If you are currently pursuing or recently earned a PhD in Math, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Machine Learning this Fellowship is for you. The fellowship is on-site only in NYC. Fellows are encouraged to go full-time with us during the fall 2026 season but we are open to discussing part-time depending on your needs.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As a PhD Fellow conducting research, you'll work alongside the team to develop new approaches to artificial intelligence in the field of electronics.

Projects may include

• Designing experiments and benchmarking methodologies
• Developing novel machine learning architectures
• Creating differentiable simulation pipelines
• Designing new electronics and collecting test measurements
• Building large-scale datasets for scientific reasoning
• Investigating new approaches to representation learning for engineering
• Conducting literature reviews and proposing original research directions
• Training and evaluating research models
• Publishing internal research reports and, where appropriate, academic papers