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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.

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