Material Science PhD Coding Experts
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Mercor is hiring PhD and Master's scientists to author AI evaluation tasks (Sci Code) Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs on a new benchmark for scientific computing. You will author original, executable research problems that today's frontier models cannot solve. Domains — depth required in at least two subdomains (with a coding focus) Materials science — semiconductor materials, molecular modeling What you'll do Source your own material: a published paper, a Kaggle dataset, an open-source repository, or a scenario you design Write scientific prompts based on the input Build the grading criteria that define a correct answer Calibrate against frontier models — a task ships only
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