AI Researcher - Fully Remote | Upto $120/hr

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: LLM Research Scientist (Pre-training & Computer Vision & Adversarial Robustness)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $100–$120/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Train image classifiers and generative image models from scratch. Fine-tune open-weight language models .
• Optimize models with limited data, compute, and model-size budgets.
• Enhance model robustness to adversarial inputs and conversations.
• Compress models to meet size and latency constraints without losing accuracy.
• Diagnose and resolve training issues effectively.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of machine learning research experience ( PhD research counts).
• Strong experience with PyTorch , JAX , TensorFlow , or similar ML frameworks .
• Degree from a top-100 university , experience at a FAANG or comparable AI company, or equivalent research track record through publications or impactful open-source contributions.

Preferred

• Experience in scaling laws and training-efficiency research .
• Knowledge of curriculum learning and data ordering.
• Skills in model evaluation , uncertainty estimation , and model calibration .
• Expertise in data augmentation and synthetic data for robustness.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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