- Company: Mercor
- Location: United States (nationwide)
- Salary: Pay not listed
Mercor at a glance
mercor.com.pl- Founded 1988
SEC filings mentioning "Mercor": 4 — search EDGAR
Recipient of NIH research funding: 9 grants, most recently in 1990 from the NHLBI — via NIH RePORTER
Mercor is a San Francisco AI hiring startup that connects experts to train models and chatbots. It began in 2023 and is based at 181 Fremont. Press has covered fast growth and a security incident. Overview: Wikipedia.
15,072 Wikipedia views in July 2026 — a rough gauge of public visibility.
Source: Wikipedia
MERCOR | United States (nationwide)
Position Summary
We are seeking a Generalist Expert to join Mercor in training and evaluating frontier AI models. This role involves reviewing and assessing a wide range of everyday professional content, including documents, slides, spreadsheets, and other written materials, to ensure quality, accuracy, clarity, and more.
Your Responsibilities
- Review and assess various types of professional content for quality, accuracy, and clarity
- Evaluate frontier AI models based on the reviewed content
- Provide detailed feedback and insights to improve model performance
- Stay updated with the latest trends in AI and machine learning
Who We're Looking For
We are looking for a detail-oriented professional with strong analytical skills. You should have experience in content review, data analysis, or related fields. A background in technology, particularly artificial intelligence, is beneficial but not mandatory.
About the Company
Mercor is an innovative company focused on advancing AI technologies to solve complex problems. Our team of experts collaborates closely to ensure that our solutions meet the highest standards of quality and reliability.
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What people say about Mercor
- Reasons to compete in this year’s Battlecode programming competition at MIT
- The Data Recipe for Teaching AI New Skills
- Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
Recent news
- Exclusive: Mercor Hit Over $2 Billion in Gross Annualized Revenue - The Information
- Lawyers are working nights and weekends to train AI for $200 an hour - Business Insider
- Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident - Fortune
- Mercor Cyberattack Linked to LiteLLM Risks - The Cyber Express
- Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks - TechCrunch
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Working in United States (nationwide)
The role targets the United States, a 50-state federal republic in North America with capital Washington, D.C., between Canada and Mexico.
Note: United States (nationwide) observes a public holiday on Sep 7 — Labour Day.
National unemployment rate in United States (nationwide): 4.2% — via World Bank
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.1% — via FRED
National quits rate: 2.0% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 206,000 — via FRED
GDP per capita in United States (nationwide): $90,027 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in United States (nationwide): 2.9% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in United States (nationwide): 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in United States (nationwide): 1,800 — via OECD
Salary & compensation
No pay is listed here. Business Insider reported some lawyers at about $200/hour training AI; that is specialty reporting, not this role’s rate.
Prepare for written or live tasks that test clear reasoning, consistent answer scoring, and breadth across general topics.
Strong match if you can give careful part-time expert feedback across general subjects for United States (nationwide)/Canada coverage.
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Listing facts
- Role Generalist Expert (United States (nationwide)/Canada) (Train AI Models Part Time!)
- Employer Mercor
- Location United States (nationwide)
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted August 24, 2026
- Apply by September 23, 2026
- Country United States
- Overview Full job description on this page (193 words)
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- Hacker News — Reasons to compete in this year’s Battlecode programming competition at MIT
- Hacker News — The Data Recipe for Teaching AI New Skills
- Hacker News — Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
- Hacker News — Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
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