Remote Quantum Computing Physicist (Contract)

Energy Jobline ZR; New York (NY); Remote; USD 80,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This remote contract role seeks a Physics PhD Coding Expert to source material, write scientific prompts, and build grading criteria for frontier models.

You will work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines, with a 6-week duration and 20+ hours per week, starting immediately. Proficiency in Python or R, GitHub, and Docker is required.

Qualifications

• PhD in physics or closely related field.
• Demonstrated depth in at least two subdomains: condensed matter, optics, quantum information/computing, computational physics, astrophysics, particle physics.
• Working proficiency in Python, R, or another relevant programming for scientific computing.
• Comfortable with Git/GitHub and running code in Docker.
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Prior scientific software or research engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Source material from published papers, Kaggle datasets, open-source repositories, or self-designed scenarios.
• Write scientific prompts based on sourced input.
• Build grading criteria to define correct answers.
• Calibrate tasks against frontier models, ensuring tasks ship only when strong models fail more often than succeed.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Education

PhD in physics

Tools

Python

R

Git/GitHub

Docker

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This remote contract role seeks a Physics PhD Coding Expert to source material, write scientific prompts, and build grading criteria for frontier models.

You will work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines, with a 6-week duration and 20+ hours per week, starting immediately. Proficiency in Python or R, GitHub, and Docker is required.