Job Overview
Job description
- Salary:
- USD 80 - 110 per hour
- Location:
- United States
- Work arrangement:
- Remote
Role Summary
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 D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .
- Position: Physics Research Collaborator (Part-time)
- Type: Contract
- Compensation: $80–$110/hour
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: Up to 20 hours/week
- Role Responsibilities
Review and evaluate research papers in Physics for correctness, novelty, and significance.
Author and review challenging Physics problems to train and evaluate frontier AI models .
Evaluate model outputs on tasks like analytical derivation, mechanism prediction, and numerical modeling.
Surface areas where current models fail, especially mistakes a working PhD physicist would catch.
Collaborate with a small program team and other senior contributors.
Requirements
- First-author or co-first-author publications in journals such as Physical Review Letters , Nature Physics , or Science .
- A doctorate or postdoctoral training from a top-20 global institution in Physics or a related STEM field.
- A competitive fellowship like an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship or Sloan Research Fellowship .
- Issued patents, a spin-out company, or grants held as a named Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator.
- An International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) Gold, Silver, or Bronze medal.
- Current or recent experience in an active research role, such as a PhD candidate or postdoctoral researcher .
- Compensation & Legal
- Hourly contractor
- Compensation reflects research seniority and credentials
- Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
- Resources & Support
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Additional Information
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
- Role:
- Physics Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $110/hr Part-time
- Job Type:
- Contractor
Company profile
mercor
mercor.comMercor is an AI data company that connects domain experts across hundreds of professional fields with frontier AI labs and enterprises. Experts on its platform train and evaluate AI models, and its APEX benchmark family measures how AI performs on real-world professional work. Mercor Enterprise helps large companies capture how their most skilled people work and turn that expertise into AI agents. Founded in 2023, the company has offices in San Francisco, NYC and London.
- Founded
- 2023
- Funding Stage
- Series C
