Research Physics Expert
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MercorAI Research
United KingdomContractSenior
Salary80 - 135 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Languages
- Strong written English (B2/C1/C2 minimum)
- Required Skills
- PythonResearch
Requirements
- PhD or postdoc in the relevant subfield (senior PhD student minimum).
- Postdoc or junior professor in the relevant subfield (PhD minimum).
- Full professor or industry research PI in the relevant subfield (senior postdoc or junior professor minimum).
- Hands-on familiarity with at least two canonical methods of the target subfield, demonstrable through publications.
- 3–5 representative publications (arXiv ID or DOI), ideally within the last ~5 years and in the target subfield.
- Working proficiency with LaTeX, Python, Jupyter, and SymPy.
- Strong written English (B2/C1/C2 minimum).
Responsibilities
- Solve research-level physics challenges end-to-end with verifiable derivations, code, and peer-reviewed references.
- Decompose challenges into standalone checkpoint sub-problems requiring genuine physical reasoning.
- Author Python answer templates with auto-grading functions for symbolic or numerical answers.
- Audit submitted solutions for correctness, scope, and method soundness; deliver actionable feedback across iterations.
- Adjudicate between parallel solver attempts and decide which solution becomes the golden reference.
- Document chain-of-thought reasoning, error tolerances, equivalent symbolic forms, and verification test cases.
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