Jobs at Mercor

Mercor seeks research proposals examining AI’s economic and labor impacts, human-AI collaboration, productivity, enterprise adoption, and returns. Eligible applicants include researchers at universities, nonprofits, public benefit corporations, and small startups in the United States or United Kingdom. Applicants must submit an expression of interest describing methodology, team expertise, outcomes, timeline, risks, and budget. Selected projects must produce an openly licensed paper, dataset, methodology, or tool.

Mercor is offering $5 million in grants for research on AI capabilities, including real-world evaluations, interactive environments, long-horizon tasks, agentic systems, reasoning, post-training, and evaluation methodology. Academic groups, independent researchers, and nonprofits may apply with a focused proposal. Applicants should describe their team, background, research accomplishments, project, expected outputs, impact, timeline, and resource needs. Funded projects are expected to produce public research, datasets, methodologies, or tools.

Mercor is offering $5 million in grants for independent researchers, academics, PhD students, and small teams conducting frontier AI safety research. Focus areas include misalignment, sandbox escape, evaluation awareness, interpretability, oversight and control, and red-teaming. Funding may support researcher time, API credits, and conference attendance. Applicants should submit a focused expression of interest describing their team, background, research proposal, outputs, impact, timelines, and resource needs.

Lead high-value AI data operations projects from client specifications through delivery. Responsibilities include optimizing workflows and pipelines, managing quality and cost, coordinating over 1,000 distributed contributors, recruiting and training domain experts, maintaining client relationships, and providing frequent progress reporting. The role requires hands-on execution in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with occasional weekend responsiveness.

Source, vet, and recruit specialized experts using LinkedIn and other channels; scale sourcing pipelines; build and maintain expert relationships; collaborate cross-functionally to improve workflows; and drive growth by delivering qualified talent at scale.