Remote Quantum Information Scientist (Research Fellowship)

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges designed to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving.

The role involves engaging physicists to work on research-level problems in their subfield, from creating problems to solving, reviewing, or auditing completed work, with written reasoning required for every assignment.

Qualifications

• You should point to papers demonstrating publication in one of the specified phenomena.
• Three to five representative papers with arXiv IDs or DOIs, ideally from the last five years.

Responsibilities

• You will work on research-level physics problems in your subfield, creating problems, solving them, reviewing completed work, or auditing it.
• Written reasoning is required for every assignment to ensure verifiability by other specialists.

Skills

PhD in quantum information/related

LaTeX

Python

SymPy

Jupyter

VS Code

English (B2+)

Education

PhD in quantum information, quantum optics or closely related field

Tools

LaTeX

Python

SymPy

Jupyter

VS Code

Job description

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges designed to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving.

The role involves engaging physicists to work on research-level problems in their subfield, from creating problems to solving, reviewing, or auditing completed work, with written reasoning required for every assignment.