Data Science PhD AI Expert
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.
Position: Researcher and Technical Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70$120/hour
Commitment: 30 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Design challenging real-world STEM problems to evaluate model reasoning and problem-solving.
- Implement tasks in an agentic development environment using Python.
- Analyze model/agent behavior to diagnose reasoning and problem-solving gaps.
- Develop robust real-world tasks with executable tests for model evaluation.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and improve AI model performance.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Deep expertise in data science machine learning finance and/or Python-based coding.
- Active or recently graduated PhD (Top U.S.-based school).
- Strong research background in frontier STEM topics.
- Ability to engage reliably for 30 hours/week primarily on weekdays.
- Demonstrated technical output such as high-quality open-source contributions.
- Comfort reading and reasoning about agent behavior traces.
Preferred
- Familiarity with agentic frameworks and OSS ecosystems like LangChain MetaGPT AutoGen AutoGPT CrewAI LlamaIndex BabyAGI SuperAGI CAMEL AgentGPT Dify.
Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
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