Research Scientist

Mercor
📍 New York, New York, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 05, 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: Expert Professionals — STEM Research
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$100/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

  • Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps in STEM domains by surfacing edge cases, ambiguities, and frontier problems where current models underperform.
  • Design challenging, rigorous domain tasks and write accurate...

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Job Details

  • Location New York, New York
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category computer-and-mathematical
  • Posted Date June 05, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 15, 2026