Computational Mathematician - Fully Remote

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: Mathematics PhD Coding Experts
Type:
Contract
Compensation: $70/hour
Location:
Remote
Duration: 6 weeks
Commitment:
20+ hours/week

• Source original material from published papers,
  Kaggle datasets, open-source repositories, or self-designed scenarios.
• Write scientific prompts based on sourced input to challenge frontier models.
• Build grading criteria that define correct answers for scientific tasks.
• Calibrate tasks against frontier models, ensuring tasks ship only when strong models fail more often than succeed.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance
  .

• PhD in mathematics
  , applied mathematics
  , computational mathematics
  , or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated depth in at least two subdomains: numerical linear algebra, computational mechanics, computational finance.
• Working proficiency in Python or R for scientific computing.
• Comfortable with Git/Git Hub and running code in Docker
  .

• Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Prior scientific software or research engineering experience.

• Immediate

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