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 ...