Computational Physicist - Fully Remote
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, 94203, USA
Listed on 2026-07-02
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, 94203, USA
Listing for:
Mercor
Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-07-02
Job specializations:
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Research/Development
AI Evaluation, AI Business & Operations, Data Annotation/ AI Labeling
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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: PhD Physicist — Frontier Reasoning Trajectory Writer
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80–$120/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 15 hours/week
Role Responsibilities- Produce "golden trajectories" for hard physics problems with complete, step-by-step solutions.
- Work in Studio and iterate with a frontier LLM to draft and refine reasoning.
- Develop trajectories clean enough to use as training data.
- Evaluate problems screened by a frontier LLM requiring failure at least once.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines.
- PhD in physics or in the final 1–2 years of a PhD program.
- Daily-driver fluency in LaTeX and Python
. - Comfort with iterative LLM workflows.
- Detail-oriented; comfortable producing publication-grade derivations.
- Submit your application.
- Complete the short technical assessment.
- Strong applicants will be invited to a follow-up interview.
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