Artificial Intelligence Researcher | Upto $85/hr Part-time

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: Professor in STEM Domains

Type: W2 Employment

Compensation: $55–$85/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 30+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Design challenging, real-world domain-specific problems for agentic tasks. Target core capability loss failures in frontier AI models.
• Integrate problems into an Agentic development environment using Python. Prepare detailed instructions, a golden solution, and consult with domain experts.
• Evaluate cross-model performance on tasks to identify logical reasoning failures.
• Identify tasks where the target model fails all tests. Classify failures as logical reasoning issues.
• Analyze agent steps to extract core capability loss patterns from the model.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Current or retired professor within STEM, including ML, coding, data science.
• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or relevant STEM field.
• Ability to engage reliably for at least 30 hours/week during weekdays.
• Basic ability to work independently and manage time.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  
  
  

Preferred

• Past experience in AI training, model evaluation, and data annotation.
  
  
  

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form
  
  
  

Resources & Support

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• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
  
  
  

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