Academic Researcher - Fully Remote | Upto $110/yr

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Academic Research Collaborator - Professors & PhDs
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80–$110/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities

- Design challenging, real-world domain-specific problems in areas like financial modeling , legal reasoning , econometrics , ML , and coding . Focus on addressing core capability loss failures in frontier AI models .

- Integrate problems into an Agentic development environment using Python . Prepare all necessary components for robust task execution.

- Evaluate the target model's performance on designed tasks. Analyze outcomes to improve model reasoning and outputs.

- Identify tasks where the model fails to pass tests. Classify failures as logical reasoning issues to guide future improvements.

- Collaborate with domain experts to enhance AI model training and ensure task relevance and accuracy.

Qualifications

Must-Have

- Current or retired professor, or PhD student , in STEM or professional/quantitative domains.

- Degree or PhD in progress from a top university.

- Working proficiency in Python applied in research, industry, GitHub , or coursework.

- Ability to engage reliably for 30+ hours/week during weekdays.

- Basic ability to work independently and manage time effectively.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred
- Past experience in AI training , model evaluation, and data annotation.

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