Academic Researcher - Fully Remote | Upto $110/yr
United States
Full-time
Remote
1 month ago
About the role
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
Qualifications
Must-Have
Preferred
Resources & Support
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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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.
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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Skills
Software DevelopmentResearch