Physics Research Scientist - Fully Remote

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

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

• PhD in physics, applied physics, or a closely related field.
• Depth in at least two subdomains: condensed matter, optics, quantum information/computing, computational physics, astrophysics, particle physics.
• Working proficiency in Python
  , R, or another relevant programming language 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

• A 25-minute conversational interview covering your background, experience, and motivations.
• Follow up within a few days with next steps and onboarding.

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