Remote ML Research Engineer — Open-Ended Contract Tasks

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 103,320 - 123,984; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Remote Human Baseliner to undertake machine learning research tasks. Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years of machine learning experience and have attended a top-100 university or worked at a FAANG company.

The role requires working independently in a Linux environment and using various tools to record tasks, including screen recordings and submitting work for evaluation.

Compensation is competitive at $75–$90/hour for a commitment of 20+ hours per week.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of machine learning experience, PhD time counts.
• Experience in pretraining, reinforcement learning, dataset curation, etc.

Responsibilities

• Attempt open-ended machine learning research tasks under a budget.
• Work independently in a sandboxed Linux environment.
• Record working sessions via screen recording.

Skills

Machine learning experience

Experience with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow

Deep expertise in pretraining, reinforcement learning, etc.

Education

Attended a top-100 university or worked at FAANG or comparable

Tools

IDEs

AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT)

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Remote Human Baseliner to undertake machine learning research tasks. Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years of machine learning experience and have attended a top-100 university or worked at a FAANG company.

The role requires working independently in a Linux environment and using various tools to record tasks, including screen recordings and submitting work for evaluation.

Compensation is competitive at $75–$90/hour for a commitment of 20+ hours per week.