AI Research Collaborator - PhD

Mercor
📍 New York, New York, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted July 03, 2026

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: Academic Research Collaborator - Professors & PhDs
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80–$110/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Design challenging, real-world domain-specific problems in areas like financial modeling, legal reasoning, econometrics, ML, and coding. Focus on addressing core capability loss failures in frontier

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Job Details

  • Location New York, New York
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category computer-and-mathematical
  • Posted Date July 03, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 12, 2026