# Mercor AI Research Fund Grants at Mercor

- Company: Mercor
- What the company does: Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. We are powering frontier research, AI benchmarks, and AI agent training at scale for the top AI labs and enterprises. Backed by General Catalyst and Menlo.
- Company website: https://mercor.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/e1f6792d-1aae-4c2e-8edb-e2b91343dbb5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercor-mercor-ai-research-fund-grants/

## About the role

People with a specific, well-scoped question: the grant is built around your proposal, not a generic research rotation We expect grantees to publish – such as a paper, an open dataset, a public methodology, or a tool the field can use.

## What they're looking for

- Real-world evaluations: measuring whether benchmark performance translates into reliable performance on realistic tasks and workflows
- Environments: building high-fidelity, interactive environments that capture the complexity of real-world work
- Long-horizon tasks: evaluating and improving models’ ability to plan, execute, and adapt across extended workflows
- Agentic capabilities: tool use, coordination, memory, and autonomous execution
- Reasoning and problem-solving: improving performance on complex, ambiguous, or underspecified tasks
- Post-training: developing better data, rewards, and training methods to improve model capabilities

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