Write and review Lean 4 proofs for a leading AI lab, formalize informal mathematics and judge whether a model's proof actually proves the right statement. A W-2 part-time employment position through Cincinnatus LLC, at least 20 hours a week and up to 40, paying $90–110/hour.
Condensed matter PhDs create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Nineteen narrow research areas, from bosonization to SYK. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
AMO physicists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Seven narrow areas, including levitated optomechanics, cavity QED and ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
Researchers who have published on stochastic autocatalytic growth create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public AI physics benchmark. A single narrow area: chemical master equations, branching processes and reaction-network moments. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
High energy and nuclear theorists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Seven narrow areas, from AdS/BCFT to quasi-PDFs and dark photon searches. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
Mathematical physicists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public AI physics benchmark, where the standard of proof sits closer to mathematics than physics. Four narrow areas, from hypergeometric identities to Fefferman-Graham geometry. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
Build and evaluate training data for a frontier lab's materials science models: DFT, AIMD, classical MD, surface and adsorption modeling, reaction energetics. For US-based computational PhDs fluent in VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, CP2K, LAMMPS or ASE. Long-term, 10–40 hours a week, $84/hour.
Materials science PhDs author original, executable research problems for a scientific-computing AI benchmark, with depth in both semiconductor materials and molecular modeling. Tasks ship only when frontier models fail them more often than not. 6 weeks, 20+ hours a week, Git and Docker workflow. $70/hour, 212 hired this month.
Red-team frontier AI models on chemical safety: write benign, dual-use and adversarial prompts from exposure and process-hazard work, judge responses against a policy standard, and write reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task.
Full-time Bay Area hybrid role with an AI lab's research team: review model reasoning on life sciences tasks, write golden solutions and instruction specs, and design benchmarks. For life sciences PhDs with 4+ years of substantive research experience. W-2 via Cincinnatus, $65–105/hour.
Umbrella listing for Mercor's chemistry red-team panel: synthetic, analytical, forensic, defence and process safety chemists write benign, dual-use and adversarial prompts, judge frontier AI replies against a policy standard, and write reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task; 5 hired this month.
Red-team frontier AI models on chemical misuse: write benign, dual-use and adversarial prompts from trace analysis and method validation, judge responses against a policy standard, and write reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task.
Red-team frontier AI models on chemical misuse: write benign, dual-use and adversarial prompts from route design and scale-up experience, judge responses against a policy standard, and write reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task.
Write and verify expert-level physics multiple-choice questions (one right answer, nine plausible wrong ones) for an AI benchmark, across semiconductors, photonics, quantum sensing, plasma, turbulence and geophysics. PhD or doctoral candidate preferred. Remote hourly contract at $61–77/hour, 10+ hours a week.
Formulation and synthesis chemists from pyrotechnics or propellant work red-team frontier AI models: write benign, dual-use and adversarial prompts, grade the model replies against a policy standard, and write reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task.
Experimental scientists create and review training data for a frontier lab's materials science models: inorganic synthesis, superconductors, semiconductors and advanced packaging, characterization (XRD, SEM, TEM) and fabrication. PhD, MS or equivalent hands-on experience. US-based, 10–40 hours a week, $84/hour.
Full-time W-2 role through Cincinnatus LLC, embedded with a leading AI lab: senior drug development scientists write golden solutions, instruction specs and benchmarks for pharma R&D reasoning. Hybrid in the Bay Area, 40 hours a week for an initial 6 months. PhD, PharmD or MD with 4+ years in industry R&D. $75–115/hour.
Author or verify expert multiple-choice biology questions (one correct answer, nine subtle distractors, chain-of-thought solution, references) for an AI benchmark in pharma manufacturing, synthetic biology, drug discovery and agricultural, environmental and food biology. PhD or candidate preferred. $60–75/hour, 10+ hours a week.
Quantum and computational chemistry PhDs write original, runnable research problems for a scientific-computing AI benchmark, with grading criteria, calibrated until frontier models fail them more often than they pass. 6 weeks at 20+ hours a week, Git and Docker workflow. Flat $70/hour; 182 hired this month.
Hands-on preclinical scientists from companies that develop their own drugs annotate R&D data and model outputs, and advise an AI lab building foundation models for drug discovery. Any modality, 5+ years industry R&D, about 10 hours a week. $60–100/hour.
Preclinical scientists with direct antibody-drug conjugate or bispecific antibody experience annotate R&D data and advise an AI lab building drug discovery foundation models. In-house asset developers only, 5+ years industry R&D, about 10 hours a week. $60–100/hour.
Red-team frontier AI models from the chemical defence side: write benign, dual-use and adversarial prompts drawn from countermeasures, protection and detection work, judge how models respond against a policy standard, and write the reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task.
Umbrella listing for Mercor's energetic materials red-team panel: chemists and engineers or operators write benign, dual-use and adversarial prompts, judge frontier AI replies against a policy standard, and write reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task; 16 hired this month.
Write or verify 10-option multiple-choice benchmark questions in applied maths (signal processing, actuarial science, optimization, climate modeling and more), with chain-of-thought solutions and references. For maths PhDs and doctoral candidates. Remote, 10+ hours a week, $61–77/hour.
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