# Research Intern 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
- Level: Internship
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $80/hr (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/e6502490-37c6-471a-9ffb-cf397764c518?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercor-research-intern/

## About the role

As a Research Scientist Intern at Mercor, you’ll work on research at the frontier of post-training, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), data generation, and model evaluation. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Currently pursuing a master’s or PhD in computer science, machine learning, statistics, mathematics, or another relevant field
- Demonstrated ability to formulate research questions, design experiments, and draw sound conclusions from empirical results
- Training, fine-tuning, or evaluating language models
- Agentic AI system, RL environments
- Developing benchmarks, evaluation methodologies, or data-quality measures
- At least one publication or open source project

Tags: Research, Internships

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