AI jobs for scientists and researchers
47 open roles, paying up to $250/hr. The work usually means writing hard domain problems with reference answers and grading how AI reasons through them.
AI labs need people with real experience to teach and test their models. These roles are mostly remote, and many are flexible or part-time, so they can sit alongside your main job. Check each listing for its location, schedule and requirements. Here's how this kind of work goes.
Physician Talent Network
Join our Physician Expert Network to connect with leading AI labs and companies seeking your expertise. This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background and interests. Once you…
Critical Care Physician
Mercor is hiring board-certified critical care physicians (MDs and DOs) to evaluate health AI models in partnership with a leading AI lab. You will read de-identified patient charts and judge AI answers to clinical…
Infectious Disease Physician
Mercor is hiring board-certified infectious disease physicians (MDs and DOs) to evaluate health AI models in partnership with a leading AI lab. You will read de-identified patient charts and judge AI answers to clinical…
Clinical Survey Research & Methodology Expert (Physician / PhD)
Mercor is seeking experienced Clinical Research and Survey Methodology Experts to support the development and refinement of physician-focused healthcare market research surveys. The ideal candidate combines deep clinical…
Biotech Investment Analyst — Drug Asset & Company Assessment
Mercor is partnering with a biotech and pharma research team on expert human-evaluation work — creating and critiquing rubrics that analyze commercial drugs and drug-development programs. We're seeking a biotech…
Multilingual Primary Care Physician (MD) — Clinical Documentation & AI Evaluation
Mercor is hiring practicing Primary Care Physicians (MD) on behalf of a healthcare AI partner building advanced clinical documentation and decision-support tools. In this role you will apply your day-to-day outpatient…
Senior Data Scientist and Data Engineering Experts
Mercor is working with a leading AI research lab on a project to improve how AI systems do real-world data science and data engineering work. We’re looking for senior data scientists and data engineers who have deep…
Pediatric Emergency / Urgent Care Physician (MD)
Mercor is hiring physicians (MD) with pediatric emergency department or pediatric urgent care experience on behalf of a healthcare AI partner building advanced clinical documentation tools. In this role you will apply…
General Physician
Mercor is hiring experienced Medical Practitioners (MDs and DOs) to evaluate health AI models in partnership with a leading AI lab. You will assess model outputs across diagnosis, clinical reasoning, and care workflows.…
Data Scientist Talent Network
Mercor is building a network of experienced data scientists for potential future projects with leading AI research organizations. These projects may focus on evaluating how effectively AI systems perform real-world data…
Biology & Life Sciences Domain Expert
Help define how frontier AI models reason about biology and the life sciences. We are looking for senior biologists and life scientists to improve how frontier AI models reason about real life sciences research. Your…
Chemistry Domain Expert
Help define how frontier AI models reason about chemistry. We are looking for senior chemists to improve how frontier AI models reason about real chemistry research. Your scientific judgment is the substance of this…
Physics Domain Expert
Help define how frontier AI models reason about physics. We are looking for senior physicists to improve how frontier AI models reason about real physics research. Your scientific judgment is the substance of this role.…
Biotechnology Expert
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for biotechnology judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a…
Life, Physical & Social Science Expert
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for scientific judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a…
Materials Science Expert
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for materials science judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This…
LLM Research Scientist (Pre-training & Computer Vision & Adversarial Robustness)
We're looking for experienced machine learning researchers with hands-on experience training and improving deep learning models end-to-end, across vision and language. You'll work on well-scoped empirical open-ended ML…
Quantum Information Science Physicist (PhD)
CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is…
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
Mercor is hiring experienced Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products to help evaluate and improve cutting-edge AI systems. In this role, you'll evaluate AI-generated…
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
Mercor is hiring experienced Sales Representatives specializing in Wholesale, Manufacturing, Technical, and Scientific Products to help evaluate and improve cutting-edge AI systems. In this role, you'll evaluate…
Materials Science Domain Expert
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models. We are hiring a senior materials science domain expert to…
Chemistry Expert
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for chemistry judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a…
Biology Expert
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for biology judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a…
Biochemistry & Life Sciences Domain Expert
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models. We are hiring a senior biochemistry and life sciences…
Genomics & Cell Biology Specialist
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced LLMs. Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team and help…
Drug Discovery Specialist, Pharmacology & ADME/Tox
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced LLMs. Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team and help…
Chemistry Specialist, Synthetic & Analytical Chemistry
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced LLMs. Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team and help…
Physics Expert
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…
Drug Discovery Scientist
This is an evaluation framework for frontier AI models in drug research and development. Domain experts write realistic research problems wrapped around messy evidence worlds. The model works offline in a sandbox with…
Atomistic Materials Modeling Expert
Mercor is recruiting Atomistic Materials Modelling Experts with strong backgrounds in computational materials science, quantum mechanical simulations, and molecular modelling to support advanced AI research. Experts will…
Inorganic Materials, Semiconductor & Superconductor Experts
Mercor is seeking experimental scientists and engineers across inorganic synthesis, characterization, superconductors, and semiconductors (including advanced packaging) to support a frontier AI research lab building…
Physical Scientist Talent Network
Join our Physical Scientist Expert Network to connect with leading AI labs and companies seeking your expertise. This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background and interests.…
Chemist Talent Network
Join our Chemist Expert Network to connect with leading AI labs and companies seeking your expertise. This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background and interests. Once you…
Biologist Talent Network
Join our Biologist Expert Network to connect with leading AI labs and companies seeking your expertise. This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background and interests. Once you…
Physicist Talent Network
Join our Physicist Expert Network to connect with leading AI labs and companies seeking your expertise. This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background and interests. Once you…
Applied Physics Benchmark Specialist
We are seeking expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core physics domains,…
Forensic / Toxicological Chemist
Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering…
Analytical Chemist
Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering…
Synthetic / Process Chemist
Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering…
Chemical Defense Researcher
Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering…
Federal Certified Materials Specialist / Incident Analyst
Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering…
Specialty Materials Chemist — Pyrotechnics or Propulsion
Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering…
Forensic Scientist — Nuclear Materials
Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering…
Nuclear Medicine Physicist / Cyclotron RSO
Mercor is assembling a panel of radiological safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate…
Health Physicist
Mercor is assembling a panel of radiological safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate…
STEM Researchers - MSc/PhD (Must own MacBook)
Mercor is looking for STEM researchers who hold or are currently pursuing an MSc or PhD to support a research project with a leading AI lab. You will work through real research workflows on your own Mac to help benchmark…
Energetic Materials Expert for Redteaming
Mercor is assembling a panel of explosives and energetic materials experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request: Answering…
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