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About the Role
We're looking for experienced machine learning researchers with hands-on experience training and improving language models end-to-end. You'll work on well-scoped empirical open-ended LLM research problems. Train transformer-based language models from scratch and fine-tune open-weight models.
What You'll Do
Train transformer-based language models from scratch and fine-tune open-weight models.
Get the most out of limited data and compute.
Construct training corpora from raw web-scale sources.
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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$100-$120/h - Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Train transformer-based language models from scratch and fine-tune open-weight models. Get the most out of limited data and compute. Construct training corpora from raw web-scale sources.
