Remote Quantum Computing Research Scientist (AI Benchmarks)

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 69,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is hiring PhD and Master’s scientists to author AI evaluation tasks (Sci Code). You will author original, executable research problems that today’s frontier models cannot solve.

Join a collaboration with leading AI labs on a new benchmark for scientific computing. This 6-week engagement requires part-time commitment (20+ hours/week), with Python or R proficiency and experience in Docker and Git workflows.

Qualifications

• PhD in physics, applied physics, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated depth in at least two subdomains: condensed matter, optics, quantum information/computing, computational physics, astrophysics, or particle physics.
• Proficiency in Python, R, or another language for scientific computing.
• Comfortable with Git/GitHub and running code in Docker.

Responsibilities

• Source your own material: a published paper, a Kaggle dataset, an open-source repository, or a scenario you design.
• Write scientific prompts based on the input.
• Build the grading criteria that define a correct answer.
• Calibrate against frontier models — a task ships only when strong models fail it more often than they succeed.

Skills

Python

Git

Docker

Research design

Education

PhD in physics

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Mercor is hiring PhD and Master’s scientists to author AI evaluation tasks (Sci Code). You will author original, executable research problems that today’s frontier models cannot solve.

Join a collaboration with leading AI labs on a new benchmark for scientific computing. This 6-week engagement requires part-time commitment (20+ hours/week), with Python or R proficiency and experience in Docker and Git workflows.