Quantum Computing Scientist for AI Benchmarking

Obsidian; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

6-week engagement

Part-time 20+ hours/week

Immediate start

Job summary

Mercor is hiring PhD and Master's scientists to author AI evaluation tasks (Sci Code). You will author original, executable research problems that today's frontier models cannot solve.

Join a collaboration with leading AI labs on a new benchmark for scientific computing. The role is a 6-week engagement, part-time (20+ hours/week), with immediate start. You will source material, craft prompts, and establish grading criteria to challenge state-of-the-art models.

Qualifications

• PhD in physics, applied physics, or a closely related field.
• Depth in at least two subdomains from: condensed matter, optics, quantum information/computing, computational physics, astrophysics, particle physics.
• Working proficiency in Python, R, or another language for scientific computing.
• Comfortable with Git/GitHub and running code in Docker with PR-style quality checks.

Responsibilities

• Source your own material: a published paper, Kaggle dataset, open-source repo, or your own scenario.
• Write scientific prompts based on the input.
• Build the grading criteria that define a correct answer.
• Calibrate against frontier models where a task fails more often than it succeeds.

Skills

Python

Education

PhD in physics or closely related field

Tools

Docker

Git/GitHub

Job description

Mercor is hiring PhD and Master's scientists to author AI evaluation tasks (Sci Code). You will author original, executable research problems that today's frontier models cannot solve.

Join a collaboration with leading AI labs on a new benchmark for scientific computing. The role is a 6-week engagement, part-time (20+ hours/week), with immediate start. You will source material, craft prompts, and establish grading criteria to challenge state-of-the-art models.