Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physicist (PhD)

Posted 25 Sep 2026

$80–110/hr

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Platform

Mercor

Work

Remote · Contract · 10 hrs/wk

Experience

Senior

Eligibility

Open to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Field

Science & research

Skills

Atomic, Molecular and Optical PhysicsHigh-Harmonic GenerationStrong-Field Light-Matter InteractionAngular Momentum ConservationLevitated OptomechanicsOptical TweezersGaussian Beam PropagationRigid-Body Rotational DynamicsCavity QEDJaynes-Cummings ModelLindblad Master EquationsPenning TrapsNon-Relativistic Perturbation TheoryOptical LatticesWannier Function FormalismUltracold AtomsFew-Body PhysicsEfimov EffectHyperspherical CoordinatesZero-Range Boundary ConditionsLaTeXPythonSymPyJupyterEnglish

About this role

About the work CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it…

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