Frontier Physics Researcher: Golden References & Audits

Mercor; Paris; À distance; EUR 96 000 - 161 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mercor is seeking expert physics researchers to author and verify golden reference solutions for the CritPt benchmark, a frontier research-level physics task. You will solve problems end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references, producing human-verified data to evaluate large language models on physics reasoning.

Ideal candidates hold a PhD or postdoc, have hands-on experience with Python, LaTeX, Jupyter, and SymPy, and can communicate in strong English.

Qualifications

• PhD or postdoc in the relevant subfield (senior PhD student minimum).
• Postdoc or junior professor in the relevant subfield (PhD minimum).
• Full professor or industry research PI in the relevant subfield (senior postdoc or junior professor minimum).
• Hands-on familiarity with at least two canonical methods of the target subfield, demonstrable through publications.
• 3–5 representative publications (arXiv ID or DOI), ideally within the last ~5 years and in the target subfield.
• Working proficiency with LaTeX, Python, Jupyter, and SymPy.
• Strong written English (B2/C1/C2 minimum; native or near-native preferred).

Responsabilités

• Solve research-level physics challenges end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references
• Decompose challenges into standalone checkpoint sub-problems that require genuine physical reasoning
• Author Python answer templates with auto-grading functions for symbolic or numerical answers
• Audit submitted solutions for correctness, scope, and method soundness; deliver actionable feedback across iterations
• Adjudicate between parallel solver attempts and decide which solution becomes the golden reference
• Document chain-of-thought reasoning, error tolerances, equivalent symbolic forms, and verification test cases

Connaissances

Python

LaTeX

SymPy

Jupyter

Publications

Scientific writing

Formation

PhD or equivalent (senior PhD student minimum)

Postdoc experience

Outils

Python

Jupyter

SymPy

Description du poste

Mercor is seeking expert physics researchers to author and verify golden reference solutions for the CritPt benchmark, a frontier research-level physics task. You will solve problems end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references, producing human-verified data to evaluate large language models on physics reasoning.

Ideal candidates hold a PhD or postdoc, have hands-on experience with Python, LaTeX, Jupyter, and SymPy, and can communicate in strong English.