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Analytical Chemist

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Applied Philosophy Benchmark Specialist

Role Overview — We are seeking expert philosophers 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 philosophy domains,...

$50 - $63 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Applied Physics Benchmark Specialist

Role Overview — 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,...

$61 - $77 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

Arts & Design Expert

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for design and creative judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. — This is a standing...

$60 - $80 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Bay Area, CA

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. — 1. Overview — We are hiring a senior biochemistry and life sciences domain...

$65 - $105 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

Biologist Talent Network

About Mercor’s 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....

$60 - $80 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

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 standing listing for...

$70 - $105 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

Chemist Talent Network

About Mercor’s 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. —...

$60 - $80 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

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 standing listing for...

$65 - $105 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

Consumer & Lifestyle Expert

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for consumer and lifestyle judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. — This is a standing...

$50 - $75 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Drug Discovery Scientist

About the role — 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...

$60 - $90 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Federal Certified Materials Specialist / Incident Analyst

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Forensic / Toxicological Chemist

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Forensic Scientist — Nuclear Materials

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Generalist

We're hiring remote Generalists to support a variety of projects across research, data, and operations. This is a flexible hourly role well-suited to people who can pick up new tools quickly, work independently, and produce high-quality...

$22 - $27 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

Graphic & UX/UI Designer Talent Network

About Mercor’s talent network — Join our Graphic & UX/UI Designer 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...

$60 - $80 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics Physicist (PhD)

About the work — 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...

$80 - $110 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Health Physicist

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

HR & Administration Specialist Talent Network

About Mercor’s talent network — Join our HR & Administration Specialist 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...

$60 - $80 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

Humanities Expert

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for humanities judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. — This is a standing listing for...

$45 - $60 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

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 standing listing for...

$60 - $120 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Bay Area, CA

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. — 1. Overview — We are hiring a senior materials science domain expert to...

$70 - $110 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

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 is a standing...

$60 - $120 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote UK

Molecular Biology Experts - UK

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. — 1. Overview — Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help...

$70 - $105 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote US

Molecular Biology Experts - US

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. — 1. Overview — Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help...

$70 - $105 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Nonproliferation Analyst

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / United States - Remote

Personalized Life Assistant Expert

Evaluate whether AI assistants give useful, realistic, and personalized answers to complex everyday tasks. The listing specifies United States location eligibility. Heavy personal use of LLM tools for planning, research, decisions, or...

$50 - $200 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

Physical Scientist Talent Network

About Mercor’s 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...

$60 - $80 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote - country eligibility not specified

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 standing listing for...

$70 - $100 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Public Defenders — Paid Research Study

Help map public defenders' work — We are recruiting 100 current or former public defenders for a remote research study through Project Mercator. We want to understand the work you personally did, not an ideal job description. — What you...

$100 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Quantum Information Science Physicist (PhD)

About the work — 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...

$80 - $110 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Senior Economics Research Expert

Mercor is recruiting Economics Research Experts for a research project with a leading foundational model AI lab. — You are a great fit if you: • Have at least 1 year of experience working at top institutions in economics research (e.g....

$120 - $150 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Source Security Specialist

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Specialty Materials Chemist — Pyrotechnics or Propulsion

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote (United States)

Stanford Youth Study — US Parents & Kids (Age 9–13)

Mercor is recruiting participants for the Youth Well-being Project, a research study led by Stanford University in collaboration with Bocconi University, focused on how smartphones and digital tools affect children and families. — The...

$110 / one-timeVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics Physicist (PhD)

About the work — 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...

$80 - $110 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Stochastic Biophysics Physicist (PhD)

About the work — 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...

$80 - $110 / hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Synthetic / Process Chemist

About the work — 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...

$65 - $75 / per-taskVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Life Sciences Research Assistant

Life Sciences Research Assistant opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Methodological rigor, Source synthesis, Rubric fidelity. This overview is based on the referral opportunity card checked on...

$30 - $50/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert PhD (Statistical Physics / Quantum Information / Condensed Matter)

Physics Expert PhD (Statistical Physics / Quantum Information / Condensed Matter) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics, Kramers-wannier duality, Quenched disorder averaging. This overview is...

$100 - $200/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert (PhD / Postdoc)

Physics Expert (PhD / Postdoc) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics mastery, Written technical communication, Technical problem-solving depth. This overview is based on the referral opportunity...

$100 - $200/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Materials Science Expert

Materials Science Expert opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Python, Materials science. This overview is based on the referral opportunity card checked on 2026-09-27; it is not the full job...

$80 - $150/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert PhD (AMO / Optical Properties of Materials)

Physics Expert PhD (AMO / Optical Properties of Materials) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics, Ab initio configuration interaction for polarizability, Atomic-structure calculations for yb-171...

$100 - $200/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

STEM Expert

STEM Expert opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Biology. This overview is based on the referral opportunity card checked on 2026-09-27; it is not the full job description. Open the official listing...

$80 - $150/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Computational Biology & Cheminformatics Expert

Computational Biology & Cheminformatics Expert opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Admet. This overview is based on the referral opportunity card checked on 2026-09-27;...

$80 - $110/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert (Professor / Principal Investigator)

Physics Expert (Professor / Principal Investigator) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics mastery, Expert judgment in ambiguous cases, Meta-level reasoning. This overview is based on the...

$80 - $160/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert (Postdoc / Junior professor)

Physics Expert (Postdoc / Junior professor) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics mastery, Written technical communication, Critical evaluation & error detection. This overview is based on the...

$80 - $150/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert (Condensed Matter / Quantum Information)

Physics Expert (Condensed Matter / Quantum Information) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics, Exact diagonalization with translation + reflection symmetries (quspin preferred) for l >= 26,...

$100 - $170/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert (Condensed Matter / Magnetic Materials)

Physics Expert (Condensed Matter / Magnetic Materials) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics, Magnetic structure factor calculations, Propagation-vector analysis. This overview is based on the...

$80 - $160/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert (AMO / Quantum Information)

Physics Expert (AMO / Quantum Information) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics, Bogoliubov transformations, Sideband photocurrent spectra. This overview is based on the referral opportunity...

$80 - $160/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert (Biophysics / Statistical Physics)

Physics Expert (Biophysics / Statistical Physics) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics, Stochastic two-state markov processes with gamma-distributed waiting times, Euler-lotka equation. This...

$80 - $160/hourVerified / Application completed externally
STEM / Remote

Physics Expert (Gravitation / Cosmology / Astrophysics)

Physics Expert (Gravitation / Cosmology / Astrophysics) opportunity listed by micro1. Skills shown on the opportunity card include Physics, First-order palatini gravity, Tetrad + spin connections. This overview is based on the referral...

$80 - $160/hourVerified / Application completed externally