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About the Role
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for careful human judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and attention become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a standing listing for generalists who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week. New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.
What You'll Do
- We match generalists in the network to projects like:
- Writing prompts and reference answers on everyday questions that have a right answer, with the context a good response has to account for
- Grading model output on general reasoning: whether the answer is correct, whether it follows the instruction actually given, whether it is complete without padding
- Flagging where a model is confidently wrong, contradicts itself earlier in the same answer, or answers a question that was not asked
- Most contracts in this field have paid $40 to $70 an hour, set per project by scope and depth.
- Apply here with your resume and confirm where you work from, then take a short AI interview, about 20 minutes total.
- We verify your background and add you to the generalist pool.
- When a project needs general reasoning work, we invite matching people from the pool to that specific listing. It names the rate, the hours, and the client, and any hiring decision is made there.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Careful reading and sound judgment, from a professional or academic background in any field
- Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
- Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions
- Who this is for
- This pool is for people whose work does not fit neatly into one of our specialist networks, or who work across several of them. If you looked through our other listings and none of them quite described you, this is the one.
- No particular credential is required. What matters is that you read carefully and can say precisely why an answer is wrong.
Role Highlights
Pay & Payout
Independent contractor engagement. Apply via the link below - Mercor handles onboarding and pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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