Remote AI Research Scientist: Pre-training & Vision

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an LLM Research Scientist (Pre-training, Computer Vision, Adversarial Robustness) for a remote contract role. You will train and refine image classifiers and generative models, while ensuring robustness and efficiency within limited data and compute budgets.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of ML research, strong ML framework experience (PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow), and a top-100 university degree or comparable AI track record.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of ML research experience (PhD counts).
• Strong experience with PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, or similar ML frameworks.
• Top-100 university degree or FAANG-equivalent AI research track record.

Responsibilities

• Train image classifiers and generative image models from scratch.
• Fine-tune open-weight language models.
• Optimize models for limited data, compute, and model-size budgets.
• Enhance model robustness against adversarial inputs and conversations.
• Compress models to meet size and latency constraints without losing accuracy.
• Diagnose and resolve training issues to improve model performance.

Skills

ML Research

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Education

Top-100 university degree

Job description

Mercor is seeking an LLM Research Scientist (Pre-training, Computer Vision, Adversarial Robustness) for a remote contract role. You will train and refine image classifiers and generative models, while ensuring robustness and efficiency within limited data and compute budgets.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of ML research, strong ML framework experience (PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow), and a top-100 university degree or comparable AI track record.