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Mercor Research Fellowship — APEX

San Francisco🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $3–$3🗓 2026-08-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, implement, and release new AI benchmarks, evaluation techniques, or economic analyses of AI's impact on the labor market using proprietary enterprise data and expert networks.

Role type

Research Fellow (AI Evaluation & Economics)

Builds

New AI benchmarks, evaluation methodologies, and economic studies

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, AI Safety, Labor Economics, Professional Services

Deliverable

production ML models | research

Required skills

evaluation methodology design, empirical analysis, task specification design, rubric creation, statistical analysis, agentic task design

Preferred skills

agentic evaluation, RL environments, domain expertise in law/finance/medicine/science, startup environment adaptability

Technologies

frontier model APIs, GPU compute, enterprise data platforms

Responsibilities

Propose and scope new benchmark evaluation techniques or economic studies, build and validate benchmarks with expert networks, publish results as papers or datasets, calibrate scoring and analyze model failures

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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