Location
Tokyo
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
June 04, 2026
Job Description
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: Research Physics Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80–$140/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: ~10 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Solve research-level physics challenges end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references.
- Decompose challenges into standalone checkpoint sub-problems that require genuine physical reasoning.
- Author Pyt...