About this role
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for physics judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.
This is a standing listing for physicists who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week.
New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.
What the work looks like
We match physicists in the network to projects like
- Writing a problem from your own area, with the system, the assumptions, and the regime, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against
- Grading model-written derivations and numerical work: whether the approximation is valid in the regime claimed, whether the limiting cases check out, whether the units and scaling survive scrutiny
- Flagging where a model reaches the right final expression through reasoning that would not hold if the assumptions changed
Past rates have run $70 to $100 an hour, set per project by scope and depth.
What we're looking for
- A graduate degree in physics or a related field, with research experience
- Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
- Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions