Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks
Mercor · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Applied AIonsite$200k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead design of next-gen APEX benchmarks for real professional work.
- Publish papers, datasets and leaderboards watched by frontier labs.
- Turn benchmark findings into narratives on ROI of expert-curated data.
What they offer
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus if within 0.5 miles of office
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
Ideal candidate
An ambitious researcher who thrives in ambiguity and wants to define how AI progress is measured. You love rigorous evaluation, publishing visible work, and bridging research with real commercial impact.
Requirements
- Strong coding skills to build eval harnesses and analyze experiments
- Exceptional communication to technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfort with ambiguity in fast-moving, cross-functional environments
- Genuine curiosity about GTM strategy, startup dynamics and AI data business
- Excited to work in-person 5 days a week in San Francisco
- 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