AMO Physicist – Remote, Part-Time Researcher

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 152,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Mercor seeks researchers to work on CritPt, a public benchmark of research-level physics problems. Assignments vary from creating problems to solving, reviewing, or auditing completed work, with written reasoning required for every task.

You must have published work on a specific phenomenon within AMO physics and maintain a verifiable publication record, ideally with first-author papers from the last five years. English proficiency and remote, asynchronous collaboration are expected.

Qualifications

• PhD in atomic, molecular or optical physics required.
• published work on the specific phenomenon above.

Responsibilities

• Create problems, solve them, review completed work or audit it.
• Demonstrate written reasoning for every assignment.
• Match researchers to one of the seven physics areas based on publication record.
• Maintain verifiable publication record with representative papers.

Skills

LaTeX proficiency

Python programming

SymPy experience

Jupyter notebook

VS Code familiarity

Education

PhD in atomic, molecular or optical physics

Tools

LaTeX

Python

SymPy

Jupyter

VS Code

Job description

Mercor seeks researchers to work on CritPt, a public benchmark of research-level physics problems. Assignments vary from creating problems to solving, reviewing, or auditing completed work, with written reasoning required for every task.

You must have published work on a specific phenomenon within AMO physics and maintain a verifiable publication record, ideally with first-author papers from the last five years. English proficiency and remote, asynchronous collaboration are expected.