AI Research Collaborator - PhD

Mercor • New York, New York • Posted June 01, 2026

Position Overview

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 

        
    