Research Collaborator STEM PhD

Berlin - Germany

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

We are seeking high-caliber researchers and technical experts to join our team focusing on Agentic workflows. The core objective of this role is to improve model performance in STEM topics by designing validating and analyzing challenging benchmark tasks.

Responsibilities

Task Design and Development: Design challenging real-world data science problems.
Content Generation: Integrate the problems into an Agentic development environment preparing all necessary components using Python.
Evaluation and Analysis: Evaluate the cross-model performance on the tasks.
Headcount Identification: Identify tasks where target model fails to pass all tests.
Loss Extraction: Analyze the agent steps (Agent Trajectory) to observe and extract core capability loss patterns from the model.

Qualifications and Recruitment

Applicants must have strong expertise in data science ML finance or coding with a deep background in frontier STEM.
PhD students and recent grads from a top school is a plus.
Availability of 30 hrs per week on weekdays.
Highly skilled and active Github contributions is a plus.

About Cincinnatus LLC

Cincinnatus is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for full-time and long-term contingent roles. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements providing W-2 employment payroll benefits and compliance while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.

Roles hired through Cincinnatus are not project-based or freelance engagements. They are structured role-based positions that typically involve full-time or fixed-term commitments close collaboration with a clients internal teams and integration into standard enterprise workflows.

Cincinnatus is a legal entity separate from Mercor. While opportunities may be discovered through Mercors platform employment onboarding payroll and benefits for these roles are administered by Cincinnatus.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability genetic information political views or activity or any other legally protected characteristic.

Cincinnatus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans throughout the job application process.

Overview We are seeking high-caliber researchers and technical experts to join our team focusing on Agentic workflows. The core objective of this role is to improve model performance in STEM topics by designing validating and analyzing challenging benchmark tasks. Responsibilities Task Design and ...