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.
About the role
This is separate from the Mercor Research Fellowship, which funds benchmark and economics work. You can apply to that HERE . If your work doesn't fit neatly into these, apply anyway. Strong proposals outside this list are welcome.
What they're looking for
- We're open to proposals across the full range of safety interests. We're particularly interested in:
- Misalignment : deceptive alignment, goal misgeneralization, reward hacking, scheming, and situationally-aware failure modes
- Sandbox escape : containment failures, privilege escalation, tool misuse, and agents operating outside their intended scope
- Evaluation awareness : models detecting they are being tested and behaving differently under observation than in deployment
- Interpretability : understanding what models are actually doing internally, and whether that can be made legible to a human reviewer
- Oversight and control : scalable supervision, human-in-the-loop reliability, and what breaks when the system is more capable than its reviewer
More about this role
Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
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