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Machine Learning & NLP Expert

$110
per hour
Hourly contract Remote Last verified 21 Jul 2026
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About the Role

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. A leading AI lab is building and evaluating frontier models and needs experienced machine learning and natural language processing practitioners to act as ground-truth experts. You will author challenging, real-world tasks, generate reference solutions, and evaluate model outputs to surface reasoning and capability gaps in a target model.

What You'll Do

  • Task design and development: Design challenging, real-world ML and NLP problems drawn from your area of expertise (e.g., model training and evaluation, language understanding and generation, retrieval, applied ML pipelines) that target specific capability gaps in a frontier AI model.
  • Spec and golden-solution generation: Integrate the problems into an agentic development environment, preparing all necessary components using Python.
  • Evaluation and analysis: Evaluate the target model's performance on your tasks.
  • Headroom identification: Identify tasks where the target model fails, and classify the nature of the failure.

You're a Good Fit If You

  • Relevant professional experience in this field.
  • Strong written communication skills.
  • Available for the stated weekly commitment.

Role Highlights

Pay
$80-$110/h
Contract
Hourly contract
Location
Remote
Category
Model evaluation
Posted
25 days ago
Job ID
WE-6067

Pay & Payout

Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.

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