AI Researcher
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: Professor in STEM Domains
Type: W2 Employment
Compensation: $55–$85/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 30+ hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Design challenging, real-world domain-specific problems for agentic tasks. Target core capability loss failures in frontier AI models .
- Integrate problems into an Agentic development environment using Python . Prepare detailed instructions, a golden solution, and consult with domain experts.
- Evaluate cross-model performance on tasks to identify logical reasoning failures.
- Identify tasks where the target model fails all tests. Classify failures as logical reasoning issues.
- Analyze agent steps to extract core capability loss patterns from the model.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Current or retired professor within STEM , including ML , coding, data science.
- Degree in Computer Science , Data Science , or relevant STEM field.
- Ability to engage reliably for at least 30 hours/week during weekdays.
- Basic ability to work independently and manage time.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred
- Past experience in AI training , model evaluation, and data annotation.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
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