Adjunct Mathematics Instructor

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.

Commitment: 20 hours/week

• Author, review, and annotate technical tasks to evaluate AI model performance on mathematics problems.
• Produce original problem sets grounded in mathematical diagrams, graphs, and geometric figures.
• Write reference solutions and apply structured quality checks to ensure accuracy.
• Provide clear, structured feedback to improve training data quality and downstream performance.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

• PhD in Mathematics, or MS in Mathematics with 3+ years teaching, research, or applied work, or BS in Mathematics with 5+ years tutoring, contest coaching, or applied math experience.
• Working fluency in at least two of: real analysis, algebra, topology, probability, combinatorics, differential equations.
• Comfortable reading and interpreting mathematical diagrams, graphs, and geometric figures.
• Clear technical writing; able to articulate reasoning step-by-step in written form.

• Hourly contractor
• Paid weekly

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