Cosmology Physicist - Fully Remote
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2026-10-08
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for:
Mercor
Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-10-08
Job specializations:
-
Research/Development
Research Scientist, AI Business & Operations, AI Evaluation
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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: Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics Physicist (PhD)
Type:
Contract
Compensation: $80–$110/hour
Location:
Remote
Duration: 8 to 10 weeks
Commitment:
10 hours/week
- Evaluate AI model training and improve model outputs in research-level physics challenges.
- Develop complex physics problems and solutions in your subfield for AI model evaluation
. - Review completed work and provide structured feedback to enhance training data quality
. - Collaborate with AI research teams to ensure precision and rigor in model reasoning.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and improve AI model performance
.
- PhD in gravitation, cosmology, astroparticle physics, or a closely related field.
- Published work on specific phenomena such as torsion, Nieh-Yan, or Chern-Simons terms.
- Verifiable publication record with arXiv IDs or DOIs
. - Proficiency in LaTeX
, Python
, Sym Py
, and Jupyter
. - English at B2 or above
, including written reasoning.
- Familiarity with an agentic coding extension in VS Code
.
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