Global
Contract-based
Date Posted
Offered salary
$80 - $140 per hour
Closing date
Closing soon
Qualification
PhD / Postdoc or Professor
Hiring location
Global
Experience
Research-level physics expertise
Responsibilities
• Solve research-level physics challenges end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references
• Break problems into standalone checkpoint sub-problems requiring genuine physical reasoning
• Author Python answer templates with auto-grading functions for symbolic or numerical answers
• Audit submitted solutions for correctness, scope, and methodological soundness
• Adjudicate between parallel solver attempts to determine the golden reference solution
• Document reasoning, error tolerances, equivalent symbolic forms, and verification test cases
Requirements
• PhD or postdoc in a relevant physics subfield; seniority requirements vary by solver, auditor, and adjudicator role
• Expertise in areas such as high energy physics, mathematical physics, condensed matter, AMO, cosmology, quantum information, optical materials, magnetic materials, or related subfields
• Hands-on familiarity with at least two canonical methods in the target subfield
• 3–5 representative publications, ideally from the last 5 years and in the target area
• Working proficiency with LaTeX, Python, Jupyter, and SymPy
• Strong written English
How to Apply
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Mercor
Physics Expert
Overview
Mercor is recruiting physics researchers to author and verify golden reference solutions for the CritPt benchmark, a frontier research-level physics benchmark. You will solve advanced physics problems, audit other experts’ solutions or adjudicate between parallel solution attempts to create fully human-verified reference data for evaluating large language models. This is a remote contractor role with asynchronous work and an expected commitment of about 10 hours per week across an 8–10 week window.
