Machine Learning Expert

Job overview

The Machine Learning Expert role is remote, with the posting identifying the location as remote and Mercor as headquartered in San Francisco. Compensation is $150–$200 per hour. Mercor connects technical and creative talent with leading AI research labs. The expert contributes ideas for challenging machine-learning engineering tasks for a long-horizon AI research project. The work focuses on inference, evaluation, and systems rather than heavy model training, and includes explaining why tasks challenge frontier models.

What you'll do

• Develop challenging machine-learning engineering task ideas for an AI research project
• design tasks intended to challenge frontier models
• focus on inference, evaluation, and systems work across GPU and CPU
• explain why each problem is difficult for a frontier model
• contribute ideas without needing to build or review the tasks.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

machine learning expert

remote

mercor

ai research

machine learning

inference

evaluation

gpu

cpu

pytorch

jax

llms

reinforcement learning

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting describes this opportunity as a contract and lists $150–$200 per hour.

About the employer

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