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About the Role
This is a full-time W-2 opportunity with Cincinnatus LLC. As part of this role, you may be staffed as a contractor with a leading technology company. Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models.
What You'll Do
Probe models: Explore how frontier AI models behave on coding, ML, and analysis tasks, and find the spots where they quietly get things wrong.
Design challenges: Turn the weaknesses you find into well-crafted tasks that are hard for models but fair to grade.
Document findings: Write up what you discover clearly, with evidence and steps others can reproduce.
Strengthen tasks: Team up with task authors to close loopholes, shortcuts, and grading gaps.
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Common Questions
Mercor has a reliability rating of very reliable based on the listings we track, with an onboarding time of 1-3 weeks (interview + assessment + trial). See our full Mercor review for the details behind that rating.
Applying takes you to Mercor's own website, where the application is completed. We are not a recruiter or employer and do not process applications directly - we may be recorded as the referring source.
$60-$90/h - Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Probe models: Explore how frontier AI models behave on coding, ML, and analysis tasks, and find the spots where they quietly get things wrong. Design challenges: Turn the weaknesses you find into well-crafted tasks that are hard for models but fair to grade. Document findings: Write up what you discover clearly, with evidence and steps others can reproduce.
