Remote Quantum Computing Physicist for AI Benchmarks

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 124,000; Part time

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.

Domains — depth required in at least two subdomains with a coding focus: Physics — condensed matter, optics, quantum information/computing, computational physics, astrophysics, particle physics. You will source material, write prompts, and build grading criteria.

Qualifications

• PhD in physics, applied physics, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated depth in at least two subdomains listed: condensed matter, optics, quantum information/computing, computational physics, astrophysics, or particle physics.
• Working proficiency in Python, R, or another relevant programming language for scientific computing.
• Comfortable with Git/GitHub and running code in Docker with a pull-request workflow and automated quality checks.

Responsibilities

• Source your own material: published paper, Kaggle dataset, open-source repository, or a scenario you design.
• Write scientific prompts based on the input.
• Build the grading criteria that define a correct answer.
• Calibrate against frontier models — a task ships only when strong models fail it more often than they succeed.

Skills

Python

R

Education

PhD in physics, applied physics, or closely related field

Tools

Docker

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.

Domains — depth required in at least two subdomains with a coding focus: Physics — condensed matter, optics, quantum information/computing, computational physics, astrophysics, particle physics. You will source material, write prompts, and build grading criteria.