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