Ai Researcher - Fully Remote

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: LLM Research Scientist (Pre-training & Computer Vision & Adversarial Robustness)
Type:
Contract
Compensation: $100–$120/hour
Location:
Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Train image classifiers and generative image models from scratch. Fine-tune open-weight language models
  .
• Optimize models with limited data, compute, and model-size budgets.
• Enhance model robustness to adversarial inputs and conversations.
• Compress models to meet size and latency constraints without losing accuracy.
• Diagnose and resolve training issues effectively.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of machine learning research experience (
  PhD research counts).
• Strong experience with Py Torch ,
  JAX
  , Tensor Flow
  , or similar ML frameworks
  .
• Degree from a top-100 university
  , experience at a FAANG or comparable AI company, or equivalent research track record through publications or impactful open-source contributions.

Preferred

• Experience in scaling laws and training-efficiency research
  .
• Knowledge of curriculum learning and data ordering.
• Skills in model evaluation
  , uncertainty estimation
  , and model calibration
  .
• Expertise in data augmentation and synthetic data for robustness.

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