Physics Research Scientist - Fully Remote | Upto $70/hr
Mercor · United States · 2 days ago
RemoteRemoteScience$70/hrPart-time
Role Responsibilities
- Source material from published papers, Kaggle datasets, open-source repositories, or self-designed scenarios.
- Write scientific prompts based on sourced inputs.
- Build grading criteria to define correct answers.
- Calibrate tasks against frontier models, ensuring tasks ship only when strong models fail more often than they succeed.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
Qualifications
- Must-Have: PhD in physics, applied physics, or a closely related field.
- 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 language for scientific computing.
- Comfortable with Git/GitHub and running code in Docker.
- Prior publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- Prior scientific software or research engineering experience preferred.