Physics Research Expert - PhD

$80 - $140 per hour

Mercor

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: Research Physics Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80–$140/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: ~10 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

Solve research-level physics challenges end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references.
Decompose challenges into standalone checkpoint sub-problems that require genuine physical reasoning.
Author Python answer templates with auto-grading functions for symbolic or numerical answers.
Audit submitted solutions for correctness, scope, and method soundness; deliver actionable feedback across iterations.
Adjudicate between parallel solver attempts and decide which solution becomes the golden reference.
Document chain-of-thought reasoning, error tolerances, equivalent symbolic forms, and verification test cases.

Qualifications

Must-Have

PhD or postdoc in the relevant subfield (senior PhD student minimum).
Postdoc or junior professor in the relevant subfield ( PhD minimum).
Full professor or industry research PI in the relevant subfield (senior postdoc or junior professor minimum).
Hands-on familiarity with at least two canonical methods of the target subfield, demonstrable through publications.
3–5 representative publications (arXiv ID or DOI), ideally within the last ~5 years and in the target subfield.
Working proficiency with LaTeX , Python , Jupyter , and SymPy .
Strong written English ( B2/C1/C2 minimum; native or near-native preferred).

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