Remote Physics Researcher for AI Lab Advances

mercor; France; Remote; EUR 98,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks a Research Physics Expert for a remote contract, approximately 10 hours per week. You will tackle research-level physics challenges, producing verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references.

The role requires mastery of multiple canonical methods demonstrated by publications and strong English writing. Ideal candidates hold a PhD (or senior PhD student) with hands-on experience in LaTeX, Python, Jupyter, and SymPy.

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.
• Working proficiency with LaTeX , Python , Jupyter , and SymPy .
• Strong written English (B2/C1/C2 minimum; native or near-native preferred).

Responsibilities

• Solve research-level physics challenges end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references.
• Decompose challenges into standalone checkpoint sub-problems requiring 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.

Skills

English proficiency

Canonical methods familiarity

Education

PhD or postdoc (senior PhD student minimum)

Postdoc or junior professor (PhD minimum)

Full professor or industry PI (senior postdoc or junior professor minimum)

Tools

LaTeX

Python

Jupyter

SymPy

Job description

Mercor seeks a Research Physics Expert for a remote contract, approximately 10 hours per week. You will tackle research-level physics challenges, producing verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references.

The role requires mastery of multiple canonical methods demonstrated by publications and strong English writing. Ideal candidates hold a PhD (or senior PhD student) with hands-on experience in LaTeX, Python, Jupyter, and SymPy.