Remote Contract: Research Physics Expert & References

1000scholars; United States; Remoto; USD 110.000 - 186.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Mercor seeks expert physics researchers to author and verify golden reference solutions for the CritPt benchmark, enabling 100%-human verification of frontier physics data used to evaluate language models.

You will solve problems end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and references, audit peer solutions, and adjudicate between attempts to select the golden reference. This is a fully remote, independent contractor role with weekly payments ($80–$135/hr).

Competenze

• PhD or postdoc in the relevant subfield (senior PhD student minimum).
• Auditor: Postdoc or junior professor in the relevant subfield (PhD minimum).
• Adjudicator: Full professor or industry research PI in the relevant subfield (senior postdoc or junior professor minimum).
• Hands-on familiarity with at least two canonical methods of the target subfield, demonstrable through publications (broader coverage strongly preferred).
• 3–5 representative publications (arXiv ID or DOI), ideally within the last ~5 years and in the target subfield.

Mansioni

• Solve research-level physics challenges end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references
• Decompose challenges into standalone checkpoint sub-problems that require genuine physical reasoning
• Author Python answer templates with auto-grading functions for symbolic or numerical answers
• Audit submitted solutions for correctness, scope, and method soundness; deliver actionable feedback across iterations
• Adjudicate between parallel solver attempts and decide which solution becomes the golden reference
• Document chain-of-thought reasoning, error tolerances, equivalent symbolic forms, and verification test cases

Conoscenze

LaTeX

Python

Jupyter

SymPy

English proficiency

Formazione

PhD or Postdoc

Strumenti

Jupyter

Descrizione del lavoro

Mercor seeks expert physics researchers to author and verify golden reference solutions for the CritPt benchmark, enabling 100%-human verification of frontier physics data used to evaluate language models.

You will solve problems end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and references, audit peer solutions, and adjudicate between attempts to select the golden reference. This is a fully remote, independent contractor role with weekly payments ($80–$135/hr).