TRACE Research Institute — Talent
This is not a job board.
We are building the mathematical proof that consciousness underlies spacetime. The work is frontier physics. The colleagues are world-class. The stakes are as high as science gets.
Express InterestTRACE is not a startup, a lab, or a department. It is an institute pursuing a single, very large idea: that the laws of physics — quantum mechanics, general relativity, the Standard Model — emerge from the dynamics of conscious agents, not the other way around.
The mathematical framework is already in motion. The Fitness Beats Truth theorem is proven. The free particle wavefunction has been derived from agent dynamics. Empirical tests against particle scattering data are underway. The question is no longer whether this is possible. It's how far the proof goes.
Working at TRACE means contributing to that proof. You will be surrounded by mathematicians, physicists, and consciousness scientists who take the hardest problem in science seriously — and believe they are close to cracking it.
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What's at Stake
You are working on the intersection of quantum gravity, consciousness science, and mathematical physics. No existing institution is doing this. You are at the frontier by definition.
Carlo Rovelli. Donald Hoffman. Chetan Prakash. Rupert Spira. Chris Timmermann. You collaborate with people who have spent careers at the edge. This raises the floor of every conversation.
A Copernican-scale shift in how physics understands reality. If the conjectures hold, this is not an incremental advance. This is the kind of work that changes what science believes is possible.
Who We're Looking For
Comfort with Markov chains, stochastic processes, or mathematical physics. You don't need to know all of it — but you need to be able to learn the rest in months, not years.
The hard problem of consciousness is called hard for a reason. We don't need optimism — we need people who find unsolved problems energizing rather than discouraging.
TRACE sits at the intersection of physics, mathematics, philosophy, and consciousness science. Narrow specialists are welcome — if they're also genuinely curious about the other three.
The conjectures are conjectures. We need people who hold theoretical commitments lightly enough to follow evidence, even if it dismantles what they built.
"If you are looking for a conventional academic position with clear publication incentives and institutional certainty — TRACE is not that. If you are looking for the most interesting physics problem in the world, with colleagues who take it seriously — you may have found it."
Express Interest
We don't run open applications. We recruit through conversation. If you believe your work is relevant to TRACE — whether in mathematical physics, consciousness studies, computational modeling, or philosophy of mind — write to us.
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