Academic Researcher - Fully Remote | Upto $110/yr Job at Mercor Inc, United States

  • Mercor Inc
  • United States

Job Description

About the job

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: Academic Research Collaborator - Professors & PhDs

Type: Contract

Compensation: $80-$110/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities
  • Design challenging, real-world domain-specific problems in areas like financial modeling , legal reasoning , econometrics , ML , and coding . Focus on addressing core capability loss failures in frontier AI models .
  • Integrate problems into an Agentic development environment using Python . Prepare all necessary components for robust task execution.
  • Evaluate the target model's performance on designed tasks. Analyze outcomes to improve model reasoning and outputs.
  • Identify tasks where the model fails to pass tests. Classify failures as logical reasoning issues to guide future improvements.
  • Collaborate with domain experts to enhance AI model training and ensure task relevance and accuracy.
Qualifications
Must-Have
  • Current or retired professor, or PhD student , in STEM or professional/quantitative domains.
  • Degree or PhD in progress from a top university.
  • Working proficiency in Python applied in research, industry, GitHub , or coursework.
  • Ability to engage reliably for 30+ hours/week during weekdays.
  • Basic ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred
  • Past experience in AI training , model evaluation, and data annotation.
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Job Tags

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