Remote Mathematical Physicist (PhD) - Research-Grade

Mercor; Miami (FL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges. We engage physicists to work on research-level problems in their subfield, with assignments matched to your publication record.

Written reasoning is required and the work is research-grade rather than volume work. Responsibilities include producing complete proofs and Verifiable results in specified phenomena such as special functions, integrable systems, permutation combinatorics, and conformal geometry.

Qualifications

• PhD in mathematical physics, theoretical physics or mathematics.
• Three to five representative papers with arXiv IDs or DOIs.
• Publications on the specific phenomena above within last five years.
• Fluency with LaTeX, Python, SymPy and Jupyter.
• English at B2 or above.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on designated physics phenomena in the four panel areas.
• Produce complete, verifiable reasoning and results for each assignment.
• Collaborate remotely with panel members across an 8–10 week window.

Job description

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges. We engage physicists to work on research-level problems in their subfield, with assignments matched to your publication record.

Written reasoning is required and the work is research-grade rather than volume work. Responsibilities include producing complete proofs and Verifiable results in specified phenomena such as special functions, integrable systems, permutation combinatorics, and conformal geometry.