Machine Learning Scientist – Adversarial Robustness / AI Trainer

Job overview

The Machine Learning Scientist – Adversarial Robustness / AI Trainer role is remote; the posting does not specify a remote geographic scope. Compensation is $100–$120 per hour. Mercor connects creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The role trains and fine-tunes image and language models, improves robustness against adversarial inputs, and optimizes models for limited data, compute, size, and latency constraints. It also diagnoses training issues to improve model performance.

What you'll do

• Train image classifiers and generative image models from scratch
• fine-tune open-weight language models
• optimize models for data, compute, and model-size budgets
• improve robustness against adversarial inputs and conversations
• compress models to meet size and latency constraints
• diagnose and resolve training issues.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

machine learning scientist

adversarial robustness

ai trainer

remote

mercor

machine learning research

image classifiers

generative image models

language models

pytorch

jax

tensorflow

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting identifies the position as contract and remote, and requires 3+ years of machine learning research experience, including PhD research.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services. Sector: 54.