AI Researcher

ABOUT MERCOR

Mercor is defining the future of work. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.

Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $2 million a day.

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.

Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Silicon Valley’s top AI companies work with Mercor to find domain experts who can help train and evaluate their models. As a researcher at Mercor, you will be responsible for advancing the frontier of model evaluations to drive model improvements across the industry that create real world economic value.

You will be frequently publishing impactful papers with industry leading collaborators, have ample resources to create high-impact datasets, and access to the frontier of evaluation and training data. You will work closely with Mercor’s Forward Deployed Research, Applied AI, and Operations teams, and have unmatched access to evaluate frontier models

We are looking for an experienced AI researcher. A track record of LLM evaluation publications is preferred but publication experience in evaluation of other types of models or other AI related publications are of interest as well.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Build benchmarks that measure real world value of AI models.

- Publish LLM evaluation papers in top conferences with the support of the Mercor Applied AI and Operations teams.

- Push the fronti...