Computational Mathematician – Fully Remote

Job overview

The Computational Mathematician role is fully remote and pays $70 per hour. The posting describes a six-week engagement with a commitment of 20 or more hours per week. Mercor connects technical talent with AI research labs. The role develops scientific prompts and grading criteria from research materials and tests tasks against frontier models. This work contributes to evaluating and improving AI model performance through challenging mathematics and scientific-computing tasks.

What you'll do

• Source original material from published papers, Kaggle datasets, open-source repositories, or designed scenarios
• write scientific prompts
• build grading criteria
• calibrate tasks against frontier models
• work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

computational mathematician

fully remote

$70/hr

mathematics

scientific computing

python

ai model evaluation

prompt writing

grading criteria

six-week engagement

20+ hours/week

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting requires a PhD in mathematics or a closely related field, depth in at least two specified subdomains, and proficiency in Python or R; Git/GitHub and Docker are also required.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.