Mercor
LLM Research Scientist (Pre-training & Computer Vision & Adversarial Robustness)
- Pay
- $100–120/hr
- Type
- Hourly
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- Aug 5, 2026
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About this role
We're looking for experienced machine learning researchers with hands-on experience training and improving deep learning models end-to-end, across vision and language. You'll work on well-scoped empirical open-ended ML research problems. Responsibilities Train image classifiers and generative image models from scratch, and fine-tune open-weight language models. Get the most out of limited data, compute, and model-size budgets. Make models robust — to adversarial inputs and to adversarial conversations. Compress models to meet hard size and latency constraints without sacrificing accuracy. Diagnose and resolve training issues. Requirements We are looking for candidates with strong expertise in one or more of the following areas: Adversarial Robustness Experience with: Adversarial training of image classifiers (e.g. PGD-based training, TRADES). Evaluating robust accuracy under standard…
