Research Intern
Mercor · San Francisco
CHECKED 11M AGO
Applied AIonsiteintern$166k
At a glance
Highlights
- Research post-training and RLVR to shape frontier LLM capabilities.
- Design evaluations and failure analyses for agentic reasoning.
- Contribute to benchmarks and publications for frontier AI systems.
What they offer
- Mentorship from experienced researchers
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Free Equinox membership
- Team events and offsites
- Potential full-time return offer
Ideal candidate
You’re a curious master’s or PhD researcher who loves turning open-ended questions into rigorous experiments and seeing your work power frontier AI systems.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a master's or PhD in computer science, machine learning, statistics, mathematics or related field
- Demonstrated ability to formulate research questions, design experiments and draw conclusions from results
- Experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating language models, agentic AI/RL, or benchmarks and evaluations
- At least one publication or open source project
- Strong programming skills in Python and reliable research code
- Familiarity with machine learning fundamentals, experimental design and statistical analysis
- remote policy
- In-person 5 days a week
Lab profile
About Mercor
AI data company organizing human expertise to train frontier models for the AI economy.
What they build
- APEX benchmark family
- Mercor Enterprise
- Human expertise training data platform
Known for
- Massive domain-expert network
- Frontier model training infrastructure
- Real-world professional work evaluation
Key facts
- Millions of domain experts on platform
- Pays over $4M per day to experts