MercorPhD
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 arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it…
- Field
- Physics
- Where
- Remote
- Commitment
- hourly
- Hours
- up to 10/week
- Asks for
- PhD
- Openings
- 3
- Posted
- 25 days ago
How Mercor pays and hires
Weekly. Payouts for the prior work week are processed by Wednesday, mostly through Stripe (Wise where Stripe isn't offered). Stripe holds a first payout for 7 days, and banks can take 3 to 7 business days after a payout shows as paid.
You apply to a specific listing, upload a resume, then do a short AI interview. Some roles add a paid assessment or work trial.
Source: Mercor talent docs: payments
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