Mathematician

Employer: Mercor

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Salary: $70.00 hourly

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: Mathematics PhD Coding Experts Type: Contract Compensation: $70/hour Location: Remote Duration: 6 weeks Commitment: 20+ hours/week Role Responsibilities: Source original material from published papers, Kaggle datasets, open-source repositories, or self-designed scenarios. Write scientific prompts based on sourced input to challenge frontier models. Build grading criteria that define correct answers for scientific tasks. Calibrate tasks against frontier models, ensuring tasks ship only when strong models fail more often than succeed. Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance Must-Have: PhD in mathematics, applied mathematics, computational mathematics, or a closely related field. Demonstrat