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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 Large Language Models. Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking talented Retail subject-matter experts (SMEs) with deep domain expertise and hands-on experience evaluating AI model outputs against rubrics to bring rigor and real-world retail judgment to our AI training data.
What You'll Do
Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps in retail merchandising, category management, and operations reasoning.
Design challenging, domain-relevant retail tasks and write accurate, well-reasoned solutions grounded in real retail practice.
Evaluate AI model outputs against structured rubrics and provide clear, written feedback on correctness, judgment, and reasoning quality.
Develop and refine evaluation guidelines and scoring rubrics specific to retail tasks.
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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$60-$80/h - Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps in retail merchandising, category management, and operations reasoning. Design challenging, domain-relevant retail tasks and write accurate, well-reasoned solutions grounded in real retail practice. Evaluate AI model outputs against structured rubrics and provide clear, written feedback on correctness, judgment, and reasoning quality.
