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Computational Mathematician - Fully Remote
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90079, USA
Listed on 2026-09-23
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90079, USA
Listing for:
mercor
Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-09-23
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Data Scientist
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:
Mathematics PhD Coding Experts
Type:
Contract
Compensation: $70/hour
Location:
Remote
Duration: 6 weeks
Commitment: 20+ hours/week
Role Responsibilities- 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 succeed.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
Must-Have
- PhD in mathematics, applied mathematics, computational mathematics, or a closely related field.
- Depth in at least two subdomains: numerical linear algebra, computational mechanics, computational finance.
- Working proficiency in Python for scientific computing.
- Comfortable with Git/Git Hub and running code in Docker.
Preferred
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- Prior scientific software or research engineering experience.
Start Date:
Immediate
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