🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Research Scientist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #175 of 702. Estimated risk: 10.0%

Directly assessed by researchers as unlikely to be automatable
Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

60%

“Research Scientist” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 60% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

28%

“Research Scientist” will almost certainly not be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 28% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Physicists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct research into physical phenomena, develop theories on the basis of observation and experiments, and devise methods to apply physical laws and theories.

Avg. Annual Salary $166,000
Avg. Hourly Wage $79.81
Available Jobs (US) 21,340
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Physicists #19-2012
Wage vs. National Median
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Physicists”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Related Occupations & Automation Risk

Economists

AI Risk 63%
Robot Risk 15%

Biochemists and Biophysicists

AI Risk 62%
Robot Risk 47%

Industrial Ecologists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 23%

Geographers

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Environmental Economists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 18%

Atmospheric and Space Scientists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Core Skills & Abilities

  • Develop theories and laws on the basis of observation and experiments, and apply these theories and laws to problems in areas such as nuclear energy, optics, and aerospace technology.

  • Observe the structure and properties of matter, and the transformation and propagation of energy, using equipment such as masers, lasers, and telescopes, to explore and identify the basic principles governing these phenomena.

  • Describe and express observations and conclusions in mathematical terms.

  • Analyze data from research conducted to detect and measure physical phenomena.

  • Collaborate with other scientists in the design, development, and testing of experimental, industrial, or medical equipment, instrumentation, and procedures.

  • Design computer simulations to model physical data so that it can be better understood.

  • Report experimental results by writing papers for scientific journals or by presenting information at scientific conferences.

  • Perform complex calculations as part of the analysis and evaluation of data, using computers.

  • Write research proposals to receive funding.

  • Teach physics to students.

Technologies & Software

  • National Instruments LabVIEW
  • Systat Software SigmaPlot
  • Linux
  • DeepSeek
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System EPICS
  • Oracle Database
  • Perplexity AI
  • Maplesoft Maple
  • Adobe Audition
  • Video analysis software
  • OpenStack
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • C
  • Dose modeling software
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Spectroscopy software
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Aptech Systems GAUSS
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Structured query language SQL
  • SQLite
  • xv
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Lenox Softworks VideoPoint
  • Elicit
  • Mistral AI (chat/models)
  • GNU Octave
  • Microsoft Access
  • Oracle Java
  • CERN ROOT
  • Ploticus
  • Mathsoft Mathcad
  • NotebookLM (Google)
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP system
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • MySQL
  • Gnuplot
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Radiation dose calculation software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Criss Software XRF11
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Synergy Software KaleidaGraph
  • Canu
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Eclipse IDE
  • SciGraphica
  • Consensus
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Git
  • Spectral Dynamics STAR
  • SciLab
  • C++
  • Scribus
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Statistical software
  • Llama (Meta)
  • OriginLab Origin
  • Python
  • Puppet
  • Database application software
  • VMware
  • JavaScript
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Sun Microsystems Java
  • Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
  • Pascal
  • Microsoft Azure software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Visual Basic
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Semantic Scholar AI
  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • Ansible software
  • Microsoft Visual J++
  • GNU Image Manipulation Program GIMP
  • Xfig
  • CERN Physics Analysis Workstation PAW
  • COMSOL Multiphysics
  • Perl
  • REDUCE
  • UNIX
  • Scite AI
  • RSI interactive data language IDL software
  • Software development tools
  • Vector Fields OPERA-3d
  • RibbonSoft QCad
  • Wolfram Research Mathematica
  • Nanovoltmeters
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Atomic emission detectors AED
  • Signal generators
  • Double monochromators
  • Liquid helium level sensors
  • Sound intensity probes
  • Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems
  • Big G torsion balances
  • Photometer
  • Mickelson interferometers
  • Computed tomography CT scanners
  • Diffusion-pumped vacuum systems
  • Galvanostats
  • Laboratory box furnaces
  • Pulsed nitrogen lasers
  • Single frequency dye lasers
  • Headspace autosamplers
  • Interferometers
  • Transmission electron microscopes TEM
  • Laboratory tube furnaces
  • Visible spectrometers
  • Semiconductor parameter analyzers
  • Annealing furnaces
  • Analog frequency analyzers
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Programmable phase modulators
  • High intensity UV sources
  • Vibrating sample magnetometers
  • Spring scales
  • X ray photoemission spectrometers
  • Betatrons
  • Photon counting systems
  • Electron microscopes
  • Vacuum stations
  • Safety goggles
  • Friction-force microscopes
  • Cryostats
  • Capacitance bridges
  • Scanning tunneling microscopes STM
  • Portable fast Fourier transform FFT analyzers
  • Optical tables
  • Telescopes
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Microwave interferometers
  • Diode lasers
  • Atomic force microscopes
  • Linear accelerators
  • Monochromators
  • Radiofrequency RF generators
  • Laser power meters
  • Digital sound level meters
  • Diffusion pumps
  • High-energy accelerators
  • Photodetectors
  • Thermoluminescent dosimeters
  • High-resolution spectrometers
  • Helium lasers
  • Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
  • Spectrum analyzers
  • Cavity dumpers or drivers
  • Cyclotrons
  • Vernier force sensors
  • Particle counters
  • Function generators
  • Gamma ray spectrometers
  • Desktop computers
  • Power amplifiers
  • Ionization chambers
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
  • Digital plotters
  • Neutron detectors
  • Prism spectrometers
  • Two-channel fast Fourier transform FFT analyzers
  • Digital oscilloscopes
  • Optical tweezers
  • Accelerometers
  • Analytical balances
  • Arbitrary function generators
  • Grating monochromators
  • Magnetic force microscopes
  • Gas chromatography GC injectors
  • Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Scintillation probes
  • X ray crystallography equipment
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Conditioning amplifiers
  • Pinhole filters
  • Turbo-pumped vacuum systems
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Two-channel network analyzers
  • Leak detection equipment
  • Analog sound level meters
  • High-resolution semiconductor detectors
  • Multiple diode lasers
  • Pistonphones
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Digital multimeters
  • Laboratory electromagnets
  • High vacuum equipment
  • Optical detectors
  • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Light scattering devices
  • Laptop computers
  • Scanning monochromators
  • Personal computers
  • Isotope ratio mass spectrometers
  • Radiation detecting film badges
  • Optical choppers
  • Argon ion lasers
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Surface profilometers
  • Zeeman split lasers
  • Vibration exciters
  • Helium refrigerators
  • Gaussmeters
  • Two-channel dynamic signal analyzers
  • High-speed video cameras
  • Positive ion accelerators

Alternative Job Titles