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Mercor
Social Researcher role at Mercor, evaluating AI model performance on sociology problems, with a focus on technical writing and flexibility in a remote work setting.
Requirements
- PhD in Sociology
- MA in Sociology with 3+ years research, policy, or teaching experience
- BA in Sociology with 5+ years applied research, policy, or teaching experience
- Working fluency in at least two of: social theory, stratification, demography, qualitative methods, quantitative methods
- Comfortable with demographic charts, social network diagrams, and survey output
- Clear technical writing; able to articulate reasoning step-by-step in written form
Originally posted on Himalayas
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About this role & career path
Working in India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the most populous country in the world and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal and Bhutan to the north; Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Myanmar, Th
What people say about Mercor
- Reasons to compete in this year’s Battlecode programming competition at MIT
- GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
- GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
- GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
Recent news
- New troubles at Mercor: Infighting, ‘face time slavery,’ and ‘inhumane working conditions’ - Gazetteer SF
- AI recruiting startup Mercor takes more of Meta's former office space at 181 Fremont - The Business Journals
- Mercor CEO Says It Now Spends More on AI Tokens Than Employee Salaries - Business Insider
- Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks - TechCrunch
- Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident - Fortune
Aggregated from public discussions and news; opinions are the authors’ own.
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