Mercor

Mercor AI training jobs

Expert projects for AI labs across software, finance, law, medicine, science and languages.

305
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10
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$75/hr
median published rate
$380/hr
highest published rate

Pay figures cover the 291 open jobs that publish an hourly rate in USD. They are published rates, not a guarantee of income. Last checked on October 8, 2026.

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  • Business, Consulting & Operations
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Entry level

Mercor is building a network of experienced management consultants who may work on future projects with AI research organizations. Your roles will consist of evaluating the quality of consulting work generated by AI systems, by designing precise evaluation criteria and providing detailed justifications for your assessments. This position is for professionals with solid experience in strategic consulting firms.

Posted July 28, 2026

Talent poolRecently verified$100-150/hr

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  • Science & Research
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

You are invited to participate in a study led by Stanford and Bocconi on the impact of smartphones and digital tools on the well-being of children and families. The role consists of completing online questionnaires and SMS surveys, and installing a parental control application on your child's phone for approximately eight weeks.

Posted July 28, 2026

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  • Business, Consulting & Operations
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

Join a team tasked with driving innovative projects in the field of navigation capabilities for language models. You will manage performance tracking, quality assurance of annotations, and relationships with contributors, taking your projects from end to end with autonomy and rigor.

Posted July 27, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-60/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Intermediate

Mercor is recruiting research experts capable of improving and evaluating cutting-edge AI models. You will contribute to creating high-quality training materials (questions, answers, evaluations) for advanced language models. This role is aimed at candidates holding a Master's degree or with 2 to 3 years of experience, with strong research and communication skills.

Posted July 26, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-60/hr

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  • Science & Research
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: 4 countries

One-off job consisting of designing difficult problems in your area of expertise to contribute to the training of cutting-edge language models. You will leverage your scientific or technical specialization to create high-quality data intended for artificial intelligence innovation. The sought profile is a PhD holder or advanced degree holder with recognized expertise in STEM.

Posted July 24, 2026

OpenRecently verified$60-120/hr

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  • Languages, Translation & Voice
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

Are you a voice actor based in the United States with African American cultural background? This role invites you to record high-quality voice samples for training next-generation voice synthesis systems. Your recordings will be used exclusively to develop an AI conversational agent and may be used for voice cloning, under strictly confidential terms.

Posted July 17, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-100/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: 40 countries
  • Level: Expert

This role involves judging how frontier AI models respond to sensitive and ambiguous topics, checking answers for safety, accuracy and policy compliance. It suits experienced professionals from fields such as psychology, law, science or public policy who can apply safety rubrics and give structured feedback to model developers.

Posted July 16, 2026

OpenRecently verified$60-70/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: 40 countries
  • Level: Expert

This role involves stress-testing frontier AI models with adversarial prompts to uncover jailbreaks, unsafe behaviour and policy failures on sensitive topics. It is aimed at experienced safety, security, life sciences or policy professionals who can document weaknesses and help researchers strengthen model alignment.

Posted July 16, 2026

OpenRecently verified$70-84/hr

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  • Business, Consulting & Operations
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Intermediate

This mission consists of writing and refining annotation guidelines for training state-of-the-art language models. You will transform ambiguous specifications into clear and non-contradictory directives for annotators, working across varied domains such as finance, insurance, and law. This role combines expertise in linguistics, instructional design, and technical writing to ensure the precision and consistency of training data.

Posted July 10, 2026

OpenRecently verified$45-65/hr

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  • Business, Consulting & Operations
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Expert

This role involves coordinating data annotation operations for AI training models, with specialization in the financial domain. You will lead collaboration between finance-specialized annotators and the program team, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met. The ideal candidate combines solid experience in finance or operational management with proven skills in project coordination and team leadership.

Posted July 10, 2026

OpenRecently verified$40-60/hr

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  • Finance & Accounting
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Expert

This role consists of evaluating and improving the financial reasoning capabilities of AI models as a domain specialist. You will design rigorous financial tasks, evaluate model responses according to defined criteria, and collaborate with research teams to strengthen the quality of training data. This role is suited to finance professionals with solid experience in leading institutions and familiarity with evaluating AI systems.

Posted July 10, 2026

OpenRecently verified$65-90/hr

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  • Finance & Accounting
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Expert

This role invites insurance experts to contribute to the development of generative AI models by rigorously evaluating algorithm outputs against structured evaluation frameworks. You will leverage your experience in underwriting, claims management, or risk assessment to refine training data and guide research teams on points of business expertise. The role combines designing complex insurance tasks, critically evaluating AI outputs, and developing domain-specific scoring criteria.

Posted July 10, 2026

OpenRecently verified$60-80/hr

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  • Business, Consulting & Operations
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Expert

This role involves supporting the development of advanced language models as a marketing subject matter expert. You will design relevant training tasks, evaluate AI model outputs against structured rubrics, and refine scoring criteria to ensure the quality of training data. This role is suited to experienced marketers who have already contributed to AI model evaluation.

Posted July 10, 2026

OpenRecently verified$60-80/hr

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  • Business, Consulting & Operations
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Expert

Retail specialist role with a GenAI team at a leading AI laboratory. You will bring your deep domain expertise in merchandising, category management, and retail operations to evaluate AI model outputs and enrich training data. The role combines strategic advisory to research and engineering teams, design of complex retail tasks, and rigorous evaluation of outputs against structured evaluation frameworks.

Posted July 10, 2026

OpenRecently verified$60-80/hr

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  • Writing, Creative & Design
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Language: Russian
  • Level: Intermediate

Mercor is recruiting experienced music producers and sound engineers to evaluate generative AI music models. You will analyze music generated by AI according to detailed quality criteria, in Russian and English, rating musicality, creativity, adherence to instructions, vocal quality, and mixing.

Posted July 6, 2026

OpenRecently verified$35-49/hr

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  • Languages, Translation & Voice
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

You are a native speaker of southern United States English whose clear and expressive voice must be recorded to train next-generation speech synthesis systems. This role involves participating in a recording session of approximately four hours, with the possibility of a second similar session, during which you will read various scripts while controlling intonation and emotions. Your recording will be used exclusively to develop a conversational AI agent for the client and may be used to clone your voice for this sole purpose.

Posted June 29, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-100/hr

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  • Languages, Translation & Voice
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: Peru
  • Language: Spanish

This is a recurring voice recording engagement for building text-to-speech systems that sound natural and expressive. It suits native Spanish speakers with a clear regional accent, whether or not they have prior voice work. Each contributor records one session of about four hours, with a possible second session later.

Posted June 21, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-100/hr

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  • Languages, Translation & Voice
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Language: French

You record voice samples in standard French for the training of voice synthesis systems intended for an AI assistant. The role includes a recording session of approximately 4 hours, with the possibility of a second session depending on client needs. Your voice may be cloned for exclusive internal use.

Posted June 19, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-100/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

An AI research organization is seeking advanced users of language models to evaluate the quality of AI responses to complex, contextualized personal tasks. Your role involves judging whether AI systems provide useful, personalized, and realistic advice in areas such as nutrition, health, productivity, or career. This position is for candidates who intensively use AI tools in their daily lives and can identify what makes an AI response relevant or failing.

Posted June 13, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-200/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Language: Assamese

You join a red teaming team to test the robustness and security of conversational AI models. Your mission is to generate adversarial inputs (jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases) to uncover vulnerabilities in AI systems before their deployment. You annotate failures, classify risks, and produce documented datasets that clients can leverage to improve their models.

Posted June 4, 2026

OpenRecently verified$16-22/hr

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Questions about Mercor jobs

How many Mercor jobs are open right now?

305 Mercor jobs are open on SideHustler today. 10 were posted in the last 7 days. Listings are rechecked against the official postings: the latest check on this list was on October 8, 2026.

How much do Mercor jobs pay?

Among the 291 open roles that publish an hourly rate in USD, pay runs from $10 to $380 per hour, with a median of $75. These are the rates the platforms publish, not a guarantee of income or hours.

What skills do Mercor jobs ask for most?

The most requested areas of expertise on these listings are AI Evaluation, Red Teaming, Adversarial Testing, Multilingual Expertise, Vulnerability Assessment. Each listing states its own requirements.

How do I apply to Mercor?

You apply on work.mercor.com: create a profile, complete a skills assessment, then get matched to projects that fit your background.

Which countries can apply to Mercor jobs?

It depends on the job. 301 of the 305 open Mercor jobs publish the countries they accept, and each listing shows them. The others do not publish a country list.

Is SideHustler part of Mercor?

No. SideHustler is independent of Mercor. We list its public postings and send you to the official one to apply. When an Apply link is a referral link, it is marked as such.

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