Remote Computational Chemistry Researcher (PhD)

Weekday AI; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is hiring PhD- or Masters-level scientists to author AI evaluation tasks (Sci Code) for a new benchmark in scientific computing. This fully remote, six-week engagement is part-time (20+ hours/week) and pays $70 per hour with weekly payments via Stripe or Wise.

You'll source material, write prompts, and build grading criteria. You will calibrate tasks against frontier models so only those that confuse advanced systems ship.

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc in a chemistry-related field.
• Demonstrated depth in quantum chemistry and computational chemistry.
• Proficiency in Python, R or equivalent languages for scientific computing.

Responsibilities

• Source material: published paper, dataset, repo, or original scenario.
• Write scientific prompts based on input data.
• Build grading criteria that define correct answers.
• Calibrate tasks to frontier models so only hard problems ship.

Skills

Python

R

Education

PhD in chemistry, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry, computational chemistry, or closely related field

Tools

Git/GitHub

Docker

Job description

Mercor is hiring PhD- or Masters-level scientists to author AI evaluation tasks (Sci Code) for a new benchmark in scientific computing. This fully remote, six-week engagement is part-time (20+ hours/week) and pays $70 per hour with weekly payments via Stripe or Wise.

You'll source material, write prompts, and build grading criteria. You will calibrate tasks against frontier models so only those that confuse advanced systems ship.