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AI Researcher

Mercor

$200,000 - $300,000
Oct 15, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US
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Mercor is looking to advance the frontier of model evaluations to drive model improvements across the industry that create real world economic value.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of LLMs and the data on which they are trained and evaluated against.
  • Familiarity with data annotation workflows.
  • Good understanding of statistics.

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 frontier of understanding data ROI in model development including multi-modality, code, tool-use, and more.
  • Design and validate novel data collection and annotation offerings for the leading industry labs and big tech companies.

Other

  • PhD or M.S. and 2+ years of work experience in a computer science, electrical engineering, econometrics, or another STEM field that provides a solid understanding of ML and model evaluation.
  • Strong publication record in AI research, ideally in LLM evaluation. Dataset and evaluation papers are preferred.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to present findings clearly and concisely.
  • Willingness to work 6 days a week, with monday-friday in person in San Francisco