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Mercor

Mercor matches domain experts to paid, remote contract work on AI training and evaluation projects for AI labs and enterprises. Jobs span engineering, finance and accounting, the sciences, and other specialist fields, and are contracted hourly. Mercor publicly reports an average contracted rate of about $120/hour.

AI training projectsEngineeringFinance & AccountingSciences (PhD)

Before you applyAn AI interviewer asks job-specific questions with your camera and mic on, and Mercor says this is its only screening method — there's no human-interview alternative. Your video, audio and transcript are kept and used to recommend you to employers; people enter later, when project managers review the submitted application and, for some jobs, a paid work trial before an offer.

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The interview process

  1. 01

    Build your profile

    Create an account, upload your resume and confirm work authorization. These carry over to every later application.

  2. 02

    Assessments

    Structured tasks that test your judgement on realistic work. They're reused across jobs — pass one and it counts everywhere it's required, and completing them can qualify you for work without applying to a specific listing.

  3. 03

    AI interview, recorded

    An AI interviewer asks job-specific questions for about 20 minutes. Camera and mic are on, screen sharing may be required, and your video, audio and transcript are retained. You get three retakes per interview — shared across all applications, not per job.

  4. 04

    Submit, then human review

    Steps can be done in any order, but nothing is looked at until you click Submit. Project managers review the application from there.

  5. 05

    Work trial, on some jobs

    A single paid assessment before an offer is issued. You're paid for only one work trial ever, and accepting one automatically declines any others.

Before you interview

  • Your interview and assessment results sync across every application that needs them and never expire — so the first attempt sets the bar for every future job that reuses it. Don't treat the first one as a throwaway.
  • You get three retakes per interview across all applications combined. Burn two on one job and you have one left everywhere else.
  • Use Chrome (Edge and Safari also work). Firefox and mobile browsers are not supported, and the Start button stays greyed out until every requirement is met.
  • Camera on with your full face visible, quiet room, headphones and an external mic. If screen sharing is asked for, only full-screen sharing works.
  • Have pen, paper and a calculator to hand — some interviews are technical, some test language or reasoning, and some include a whiteboard that saves on its own.

Common questions about Mercor

How does Mercor screen candidates?

An AI interviewer asks job-specific questions with your camera and mic on, and Mercor says this is its only screening method — there's no human-interview alternative. Your video, audio and transcript are kept and used to recommend you to employers; people enter later, when project managers review the submitted application and, for some jobs, a paid work trial before an offer. We describe it as “AI interview · recorded”. Because the session is recorded, treat it as a real interview: quiet room, working mic and camera, and nothing private on screen.

Can I work for Mercor from outside the United States?

Usually yes, but Mercor sets it per listing, not once for the whole programme. Of the 331 Mercor listings that publish an eligibility rule, 220 state no country restriction at all and 111 are genuinely limited, 81 of them to the United States only. Every job page here shows that job's own rule above the apply button, and says nothing where the listing says nothing.

What does Mercor pay?

The median advertised rate across 295 priced Mercor listings is $75 an hour, and the full published range runs $10 to $250. These are the rates Mercor advertises, taken from its own listings and re-read daily — not an estimate of what you would end up billing. Read the hourly rate alongside the hours: of the 234 listings that publish a weekly commitment, 70 ask for less than full time, so the annual figure on a job page can be far below what the rate alone suggests. The other 36 publish no range and say so.

Do I need a referral to get hired through Mercor?

No — Mercor assesses you exactly the same way whether you arrive from this site or go there directly. We link through our own referral link and earn a commission if you are hired, which is what funds the directory; it costs you nothing and gives you no advantage. We are not Mercor, not an employer and not an agency.

How many Mercor jobs are open right now?

331 Mercor jobs are listed here right now, and the most recent was posted on 2026-10-01. We re-read Mercor's public listings every day and drop jobs that close, so the count moves on its own — see all of them at /jobs?platform=mercor.

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