Physics Researcher - High Energy Expert
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MercorHigh-energy physics
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: GermanyContract
Salary80 - 135 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Languages
- Strong written English (B2/C1/C2 minimum; native or near-native preferred).
- Required Skills
- Python
Requirements
- Have a PhD or postdoc in the relevant subfield; senior PhD students are the stated minimum.
- Demonstrate hands-on familiarity with at least two canonical methods of the target subfield through publications.
- Provide 3–5 representative publications, ideally from approximately the last five years and in the target subfield.
- Have working proficiency with LaTeX.
- Have working proficiency with Python.
- Have working proficiency with Jupyter.
- Have working proficiency with SymPy.
- Have strong written English at B2, C1, or C2 level; native or near-native proficiency is preferred.
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, and 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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