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
You'll be the first GRC hire at a company that processes some of the most sensitive data on earth: training data, evals, and human-feedback pipelines for the frontier AI labs, plus payments and KYC for 300K+ experts.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years in security GRC, compliance engineering, or audit, with at least 2 years owning a SOC 2 Type 2 program end-to-end at a company under audit by enterprise customers
- You've shipped at least one ISO 27001 certification from kickoff to issued certificate, including Stage 1 and Stage 2 with a real registrar
- Fluent in Vanta (or Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto) at the integration and admin level, not just the reviewer UI - you've configured connectors, written custom tests, debugged broken evidence
- You translate cloud-security language to auditor language and back without losing precision - you can read a Wiz finding, a Panther rule, an IAM policy, and say what control it maps to
- You write controls as code or query evidence with SQL when the platform falls short - Python, SQL, or shell, whatever it takes
- You know the difference between "we don't have a control for that" and "we have a compensating control" and you don't fabricate the second one
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.
You'll be the first GRC hire at a company that processes some of the most sensitive data on earth: training data, evals, and human-feedback pipelines for the frontier AI labs, plus payments and KYC for 300K+...
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