$150-200/hrAs published by the platform.
This role asks an ML researcher to propose demanding engineering problems that can stump frontier AI models, as part of a long-horizon research project with a leading AI lab. It is aimed at people who have trained, fine-tuned or optimized models in PyTorch or JAX and can explain why a task is hard for current systems. The emphasis is on inference, evaluation and systems work, with about half of the tasks running on GPU.
$150-200/hr
Pay as published by the platform. It is not a guarantee of income or hours.
Open to residents of: United States.
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Official posting: https://work.mercor.com/jobs/list_AAABoVbx1lSSTH-CB6hAt4WE/machine-learning-expert
Last checked on October 20, 2026.
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