Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey .
Position: Physics PhD Coding Experts
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70/hour
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 weeks
Commitment: 20 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
Source material from published papers Kaggle datasets open-source repositories or self-designed scenarios.
Write scientific prompts based on sourced input.
Build grading criteria to define correct answers.
Calibrate tasks against frontier models ensuring tasks ship only when robust models fail more often than succeed.
Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .
Qualifications
Must-Have
PhD in physics applied physics or a closely related field.
Demonstrated depth in at least two subdomains:
condensed matter optics quantum information/computing computational physics astrophysics particle physics.
Working proficiency in Python R or another relevant programming language for scientific computing.
Comfortable with Git/GitHub and running code in Docker .
Preferred
Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Prior scientific software or research engineering experience.
Start Date
Immediate
Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)
Upload your resume and application form.
A 25-minute conversational interview covering your background experience and motivations.
Follow up within a few days with next steps and onboarding.
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