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Computational Physicist - Fully Remote

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, 94203, USA
Listing for: Mercor
Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-07-02
Job specializations:
  • Research/Development
    AI Evaluation, AI Business & Operations, Data Annotation/ AI Labeling
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80 - 120 USD Hourly USD 80.00 120.00 HOUR
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.
Qualifications Must-Have
  • 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.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
  • Submit your application.
  • Complete the short technical assessment.
  • Strong applicants will be invited to a follow-up interview.
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PS:
Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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