Job Description
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: PhD Physicist — Frontier Reasoning Trajectory Writer Type: Contract Compensation: $80–$120/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 15 hours/week Role Responsibilities Produce "golden trajectories" for hard physics problems with complete, step-by-step solutions. Work in Studio and iterate with a frontier LLM to draft and refine reasoning. Develop trajectories clean enough to use as training data. Evaluate problems screened by a frontier LLM requiring failure at least once. Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines. Qualifications Must-Have PhD in physics or in the final 1–2 years of a PhD program. Daily-driver fluency in LaTeX and Python . Comfort with iterative LLM workflows. Detail-oriented; comfortable producing publication-grade derivations. Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete) Submit your application. Complete the short technical assessment. Strong applicants will be invited to a follow-up interview. Resources & Support For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs. mercor .com/welcome For any help or support, reach out to: support@ mercor .com PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity. Originally posted on Himalayas
