Computational Mathematician - Fully Remote

Mercor
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

As a Computational Mathematician, you will work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance. You will source material from published papers, Kaggle datasets, open-source repositories, or self-designed scenarios, and write scientific prompts based on sourced inputs.

What You Will Do

Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include building grading criteria to define correct answers, calibrating tasks against frontier models, and working with Python for scientific computing.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role might be a fit for you if you have a PhD in mathematics, applied mathematics, computational mathematics, or a closely related field, and have depth in at least two subdomains, such as numerical linear algebra or computational finance.

Requirements

  • PhD in mathematics, applied mathematics, computational mathematics, or a closely related field
  • Depth in at least two subdomains: numerical linear algebra, computational mechanics, computational finance
  • Working proficiency in Python for scientific computing
  • Comfortable with Git/GitHub and running code in Docker

Benefits

  • Upto $70/hr
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