Roles we actually opened and read.

Senior Property Damage and Restoration Expert

Needs: 5+ years in desk adjusting, coverage analysis, or restoration estimating. Xactimate expertise. Flood and wildfire claim experience is a strong plus; adjuster licences help.

The work: review property-loss evidence (photos, inspection notes, estimates, policy documents) and write coverage determinations and estimate reviews that train AI systems. Your adjusting judgement is the product.

Uncertain: actual assigned hours depend on project matching after you're certified — approval is not a workload guarantee.

Senior Vehicle Damage and Condition Expert

Needs: 5+ years in vehicle damage appraisal, automotive claims, or collision repair estimating. A state adjuster licence, I-CAR or ACTAR credentials are a plus.

The work: Assess vehicle-damage evidence — photos, estimates, repair records — and write appraisal and condition judgements that teach AI systems to read damage the way an experienced appraiser does.

Senior Claims Investigation and Evidence Review Expert

Needs: Minimum 7 years in special investigations (SIU), insurance fraud detection, or forensic work.

The work: Review claim files and evidence for staged losses and fraud patterns, and document investigation findings that train fraud-detection AI.

Senior Specialty Inspection Expert, Crop, Auction and Rental

Needs: Minimum 5 years in crop insurance adjusting, auction grading, or rental/lease-return inspection.

The work: Assess crop condition and loss, auction grades, and rental-return condition from field reports and aerial imagery, writing the determinations AI systems learn from.

Senior Cargo Condition and Securing Surveyor

Needs: At least 7 years as a cargo surveyor, specialising in reefer and temperature-controlled cargo, container and securing surveying.

The work: Survey cargo condition and securing evidence from container and reefer shipments, and produce the survey judgements that train logistics AI.

Senior Advanced NDT and Imaging Specialist

Needs: 7+ years in advanced NDT, with ASNT, NAS 410 or EN 4179 Level II/III certification (stated as required), including industrial CT, X-ray and ultrasonic interpretation.

The work: Interpret advanced inspection results and record expert findings used to train inspection AI.

Senior Intelligence Analyst – National Security

Needs: Current or previous experience inside a civilian intelligence agency (the posting names CIA, NSA, MI6/SIS, GCHQ or equivalent), in analysis, threat assessment, or national security.

The work: Apply real intelligence-analysis tradecraft to evaluate and improve AI systems on sensitive-domain tasks.

Intelligence Operations & Collection Expert

Needs: Current or previous civilian intelligence-agency experience, with a collection discipline — HUMINT, SIGINT, or OSINT — and operational planning.

The work: Bring collection experience and operational judgement to AI evaluation work.

Intelligence Agency Officer

Needs: Current or previous civilian intelligence-agency experience in analysis, threat analysis, or operational planning.

The work: Apply intelligence tradecraft to expert review work for AI systems.

Senior Photographer

Needs: Professional photography experience, advanced Photoshop and Lightroom, and a portfolio that proves it.

The work: Write professional image descriptions and metadata, and judge image quality to a working photographer's standard for AI training.

Graphic Designer

Needs: Advanced proficiency in industry-standard tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma) and a demonstrated portfolio across digital, print, or branding.

The work: Review and produce design work across digital, print, and branding, setting the quality bar AI systems are trained against.

Film & Video Craft Expert (Camera, VFX, Editing & Performance)

Needs: Professional or graduate experience in film, theatre, VFX, or a related craft.

The work: Evaluate pairs of AI-generated videos and explain, in craft terms, which result is stronger and why.

Senior Character Animator

Needs: US-based, with 10+ years as a hands-on character animator focused on human and character acting, and credits on feature films, VFX features, or AAA game cinematics.

The work: Senior character-animation work for AI evaluation — bringing a rigger's and actor's eye to how generated characters move and perform.

US only, on-site: this role is for candidates based in the United States who can work in person in Playa Vista (Los Angeles) or New York.

3D Artists & Video Editors (Must own MacBook)

Needs: Your own Mac (Apple M-series or Intel, macOS 15+), 2–3 years of 3D or video experience, and working proficiency in tools such as Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, or DaVinci Resolve.

The work: 3D and video craft work for AI training and evaluation, from your own machine.

Cinematographer

Needs: US-based, with 7+ years of professional experience in film, television, or virtual production, including credits on 2+ professional films.

The work: Apply a working cinematographer's judgement — lensing, lighting, camera language — to AI video evaluation at a professional standard.

US only: Mercor lists this role for candidates based in the United States.

VFX & Compositing Supervisor

Needs: US-based, with 7+ years of professional experience in feature VFX, animation, or virtual production, including credits on 2+ professional films.

The work: Supervise-level judgement on visual effects and compositing quality for AI video evaluation.

US only: Mercor lists this role for candidates based in the United States.

Colorist & Finishing Editor

Needs: US-based, with 7+ years of professional experience in post-production, colour grading, and editorial finishing, including credits on 2+ professional films.

The work: Grade-and-finish judgement — colour, polish, delivery standard — applied to AI video evaluation.

US only: Mercor lists this role for candidates based in the United States.

Mechanical Engineering Expert (MSc. or PhD)

Needs: An MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field (or an equivalent applied-mechanics background), with simulation and computational engineering skill and real coding proficiency.

The work: Solve and review simulation and computational-engineering problems. The posting is explicit that this is a very coding-heavy role.

Read this first: the posting's compensation section says experts are paid per completed task, despite the hourly range shown. Read the posting's own terms before treating the range as a wage.

Machine Learning Engineer

Needs: Demonstrated Python expertise with ML frameworks (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch) and hands-on MongoDB experience.

The work: Build, debug, and evaluate machine-learning work in Python — the hands-on engineering that trains and tests AI systems.

Read this first: this posting has been open since April 2026. We re-checked it today and it is live, but long-open postings can close without notice.

Litigation Associate Attorney (BigLaw Firms)

Needs: JD from a US law school and active US bar admission in good standing, with AmLaw 100 or similarly top-tier firm experience.

The work: Produce and review high-end legal work product used to train legal AI.

Read this first: despite the Litigation title, this posting's listed scope is heavily transactional — M&A, private equity, capital markets, contract drafting. If your practice is courtroom litigation, read the posting closely before applying.

Corporate Attorney (BigLaw Firms)

Needs: An active US law licence and recent (current, or within the last 3 years) top-tier BigLaw experience in corporate law, M&A, or private equity.

The work: Apply BigLaw corporate experience to legal drafting and review work that trains AI systems.

Registered Nurse

Needs: Based in the United States and licensed to practise as a Registered Nurse there, with recent inpatient bedside experience and strong clinical documentation skills.

The work: Review clinical documentation and write the annotations and judgements that train medical AI — your bedside experience is the qualification.

Locum Tenens Hospitalist

Needs: MD or DO, board certified in Internal Medicine, 5+ years of hospitalist experience, and current or recent (within 2 years) inpatient practice.

The work: Review inpatient hospitalist cases and record expert clinical judgements used to train and evaluate medical AI.

Read this first: the posting's compensation section says pay is output-based — per completed task — despite the hourly range shown. Read the posting's own terms before treating the range as a wage.

Forensic / Toxicological Chemist

Needs: Forensic casework identifying substances and precursors — controlled-substance casework in a forensic lab, clandestine-lab response, or forensic toxicology.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: challenge frontier AI models with expert forensic-chemistry scenarios and judge their responses against real casework standards.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Industrial Hygienist / Process Safety Engineer

Needs: Real exposure and process-hazard assessment experience — for example, work as a certified industrial hygienist (exposure assessment, sampling, control banding) or in process hazard analysis (HAZOP, LOPA, what-if).

The work: Per-task red-teaming: test frontier AI models with realistic industrial-hygiene and process-safety scenarios drawn from professional practice.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Analytical Chemist

Needs: Experience building and validating analytical methods for hazardous compounds — detection and identification via GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, IR, or NMR at trace levels.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: probe frontier AI models with analytical-chemistry problems and grade their answers against validated lab practice.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Synthetic / Process Chemist

Needs: Synthetic routes actually run and scaled — bench to pilot to plant — with route design experience in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, or fine chemicals.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: challenge frontier AI models on synthesis and scale-up reasoning, and judge the output like a process chemist would.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Chemical Defense Researcher

Needs: Chemical-threat work from the defensive side, institutionally — chemical defence research at an institute such as USAMRICD, DoD, or CDC, including toxicology of chemical warfare agents and medical countermeasures.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: evaluate frontier AI models on chemical-defence questions with a researcher's standards.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Commercial Blasting Engineer

Needs: Work as a licensed blaster or blasting engineer in mining, quarrying, construction, or demolition — blast design and vibration control.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: test frontier AI models on blasting engineering scenarios and judge them against licensed professional practice.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Propulsion & Effects Engineer

Needs: Propulsion or munitions designed, qualified, or tested — solid, liquid, or hybrid propulsion system design, test, and qualification, or terminal-effects modelling.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: challenge frontier AI models on propulsion engineering and judge the results against real qualification standards.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Federal Certified Materials Specialist / Incident Analyst

Needs: Federal certification as an explosives specialist (or a national equivalent) — forensic-lab identification of energetic materials and post-blast residues, and scene or casework under that certification.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: evaluate frontier AI models on energetic-materials identification and incident analysis to a certified specialist's standard.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Specialty Materials Chemist — Pyrotechnics or Propulsion

Needs: Formulation chemistry for pyrotechnics, propellants, or specialty energetic materials — synthesis and characterisation of energetic compounds in a licensed or government facility.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: probe frontier AI models on energetic-materials formulation and judge the answers against licensed-facility practice.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Hazardous Device Specialist / Public Safety Professional

Needs: Certification as a bomb technician or hazardous-device operator — device assessment and render-safe procedures, and real-device experience from military EOD or public-safety work.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: test frontier AI models on hazardous-device scenarios and judge them against render-safe professional doctrine.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Nonproliferation Analyst

Needs: Professional work on proliferation questions — export-control licensing, classification, or enforcement; treaty implementation (NPT, CTBT, safeguards); or proliferation pathway analysis.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: evaluate frontier AI models on nonproliferation analysis to a working analyst's standard.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Forensic Scientist — Nuclear Materials

Needs: Characterisation of real nuclear material — nuclear forensics casework, radiochemical and mass-spectrometric analysis (isotopics, age dating, process signatures).

The work: Per-task red-teaming: challenge frontier AI models on nuclear forensics and judge the results against casework standards.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Nuclear Security Engineer

Needs: Responsibility for keeping nuclear material where it belongs — material control and accountability (MC&A), physical protection system engineering, or vulnerability and adversary-path analysis.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: test frontier AI models on nuclear security engineering and judge them against protection-system practice.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Nuclear Engineer, Fuel Cycle

Needs: Work on the fuel cycle itself — enrichment, conversion, fuel fabrication, or reprocessing — including criticality safety or fuel-cycle facility safety analysis and licensing.

The work: Per-task red-teaming: challenge frontier AI models on fuel-cycle engineering and judge the results against licensed-facility standards.

Eligibility rule: this is red-teaming work on frontier AI models. Your contributions must not draw on classified or export-controlled information.

Generalist (Must own MacBook)

Needs: Your own MacBook or Mac (Apple M-series or Intel, macOS 15+), and 2–3 years of STEM or non-STEM experience — or a Masters in progress or recently completed.

The work: Generalist expert tasks across domains for AI training and evaluation — the widest door on this board.

Read this first: Mercor states it cannot support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates on this role.

SME Careers — Expert Application (all fields)

Needs: Real subject-matter expertise in your field — science, law, medicine, engineering, languages, business, and more. There is no single posted role here: you apply with your strongest expertise, and SME Careers matches you to project work in it.

The work: AI training and evaluation — expert answers, reviews, and judgements in your field that AI systems learn from. Remote contract work. Rates vary by project and are confirmed by SME Careers during their process; we don't quote a rate because they haven't published one for us to check.