About Mercor
Mercor
Materials Scientist – Fully Remote. Build a realistic digital workspace centered on Drive folders. Design multi-step tasks for frontier AI agents. Collaborate with other experts and research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria.
Requirements
- MS / PhD in materials science, chemistry, physics, or related discipline.
- 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 R&D organization, national lab, or R1 university materials research group.
- Background in metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, or semiconductor materials.
- Experience in characterization (XRD, SEM/TEM, spectroscopy, thermal analysis).
- Computational materials science / DFT / MD.
- Process development and scale-up.
- Reliability / failure analysis in advanced materials.
- Day-to-day use of VASP, Materials Studio (Biovia), LabVantage / LabWare LIMS, and ANSYS Fluent / STAR-CCM+.
- Strong analytical thinking and writing.
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Recent news
- New troubles at Mercor: Infighting, ‘face time slavery,’ and ‘inhumane working conditions’ - Gazetteer SF
- AI recruiting startup Mercor takes more of Meta's former office space at 181 Fremont - The Business Journals
- Mercor CEO Says It Now Spends More on AI Tokens Than Employee Salaries - Business Insider
- Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks - TechCrunch
- Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident - Fortune
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