Academic Researcher - Fully Remote | Upto $110/yr
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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 AI models . Integrate problems into an Agentic development environment using Python . Prepare all necessary components for robust task execution. Evaluate the target model's performance on designed tasks. Analyze outcomes to improve model reasoning and outputs. Identify tasks where the model fails to pass tests. Classify failures as logical reasoning issues to guide future improvements. Collaborate
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