Mercor
Engineering Expert
- Pay
- $60–125/hr
- Type
- Part-time
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- Sep 15, 2026
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About this role
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for engineering judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a standing listing for engineers who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week. New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins. What the work looks like We match engineers in the network to projects like: Writing a design problem from work you have done, with the loads, the constraints, and the tolerances, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against Grading model-written analysis: whether the governing failure mode is the one considered, whether the assumptions…
