Academic Researcher - Fully Remote

Mercor

Full-time New York, New York computer-and-mathematical

Posted:

June 15, 2026

Location:

New York, New York, United States

Job Description

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: Academic Research Collaborator - Professors & PhDs
 Type: Contract
 Compensation: $80–$110/hour
 Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
Design challenging, real-world domain-specific problems in areas like financial modeling, legal reasoning, econometrics, ML, and coding. Focus on addressing core capability loss failures in frontier 
            

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time

Location: New York, United States

Posted: June 15, 2026

Deadline: July 25, 2026