AI Researcher
Mercor, New York, NY, United States
About The Job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco.
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, targeting 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 and 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.
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Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco.
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, targeting 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 and 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.
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