We are working on advanced specifications and applied research across focused horizons. We’re also looking for a certain bent of mission-focused research scientists, engineers, and applied generalists who’ve been thinking seriously about complex, ultra-efficient processing for hard physics modalities, and who want to be part of our team to help us extend these scaling points into multi-parameter, variable-hardness architectures and targeted high-impact problems.
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We have a thesis-defined approach to capability design. As part of this, we are focused on finding strong researchers and engineers in and across discrete and continuous or applied mathematics, computer architecture and hardware-software codesign, applied physics and nanoscale methods, precision optics, (bio)medical physics, and advanced materials and integration.
We’d be really excited to hear from you. If you’re interested in what we are doing and want to be a part of our team or talk shared alignments, please email us here: xy [at] sl-machines [dot] com
You can share with us:
- A short scope on what you’re focused on, or 2-3 bullet points on some of your significant technical projects. We’re for the most part interested in learning about you as well as some of the hardest technical problems you've been approaching.
- How you learned about us, and why you’re interested in being part of the research, engineering, and advanced capabilities we’re working on.
- Any of your preferred links. (This could be research papers, thesis or dissertation, patents, GitHub, portfolio, architecture specifications, technical writeups, blog, talks, works-in-progress, or your most-recent CV — anything that allows us to interact with the character of your work).
02 Our character and animating principles
We hold durable IP foundations across our architectures and are working toward accelerated timelines with near-term deployment targets.
We are also taking significant ownership over our critical-path architecture capabilities. This means interfacing at both short-range and long-range intensities with abstruse problem sets within our technology approach, and with otherwise-introduced constraints that are concomitant to doing pure approaches and system design for high-performance ultra-precision devices.
We think of this way of interfacing as having facility for abstraction, in either or a combination of these ways:
- Basal acuity • Having a generally fair capacity for continuous and polyglottal pattern matching; the ability to adapt information sparsity and manage for tradeoffs at different structural levels; a kind of stubborn, x-ray temperament or keenness for peering through noise.
- Higher-order awareness • A sort of proclivity for deconstructing the make-up of a complex structure so that it is more amenable to engineering; some disposition for switching across, or between, abstraction layers.
- Staying intuition • In both the people we look for and the problems we select for, we like to find out-of-distribution technique. Anomalies are especially high-information containers for hidden or latent structure. Finding them often opens entry into nonobvious or previously inaccessible, structurally rich regions of both theory and utility space. For this latter kind of space, we like to go the distance and apply multi-timeline thinking and high-leverage approaches into our research, design, and application heuristics.
03 Our general modes
We maintain tightly closed feedback loops between our R&D priorities, and focus on efficient velocity and implementation between our systems interests. This translates to how we focus on effectively structuring and carrying out the hard-input operating models necessary for executing each of our architectures within specified timelines and parameters.
We think of our research, engineering, and company operating principles along these dimensions:
resolute thoughtfulness and kindredness,
horizontal vision and undaunted rigor,
high capacitance and focused, low-ego resolve,