Materials Scientist - Fully Remote | Upto $70/hr
mercor
IndiaremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Compensation: $70/hour
- Location: Remote
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Commitment: 20+ hours/week
- Required: PhD in Materials Science or related field
- Start Date: Immediate
Role overview
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.
Responsibilities
- Source material from published papers, Kaggle datasets, open-source repositories, or designed scenarios.
- Write scientific prompts based on sourced input to challenge AI models.
- Build grading criteria to define correct answers for scientific tasks.
- Calibrate tasks against frontier models, ensuring tasks ship only when strong models fail more often than succeed.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and improve AI model performance.
Requirements
- PhD in materials science, materials engineering, applied physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated depth in semiconductor materials and molecular modeling.
- Working proficiency in Python, R, or another relevant programming language for scientific computing.
- Comfortable with Git/GitHub and running code in Docker.
Nice to have
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- Prior scientific software or research engineering experience.
Additional details
- Position: Material Science PhD Coding Experts
- Type: Contract
- Compensation: $70/hour
- Location: Remote
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Commitment: 20+ hours/week
- Start Date: Immediate
- Interview Process - Step 1: Upload your resume and application form.
- Interview Process - Step 2: A 25-minute conversational interview covering your background, experience, and motivations.
- Interview Process - Step 3: Follow up within a few days with next steps and onboarding.
- Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete): Upload resume
- Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete): AI interview based on your resume
- Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete): Submit form
- Resources & Support: For details about the interview process and platform information, please check:
- Resources & Support: For any help or support, reach out to:
- PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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