STEM Specialist - German Expertise

Mercor; Berlin; Remote; EUR 28,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced scientists and engineers who are native or fluent in German to train and evaluate AI agents on realistic professional tasks. You will work in realistic digital workspaces with documents, spreadsheets, email, chat and industry tools, creating tasks, setting grading criteria and reviewing an agent’s work for accuracy and local compliance.

You will work remotely ~21 hours per week on an hourly pilot running Oct 23 to Nov 19, collaborating with teams to ensure quality

Qualifications

• Native or fluent in German.
• Experience with quantitative analysis.
• Strong technical documentation writing.
• Ability to solve engineering problems.

Responsibilities

• Build realistic digital workspaces with documents, memos and records for project teams.
• Draft realistic tasks in German grounded in local practice and terminology.
• Define grading criteria and assess AI agent outputs against professional standards.
• Review AI work, identify mistakes in calculations, details, or local rules, and correct them.

Skills

German language

Quantitative analysis

Technical documentation

Engineering problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree from Germany

Job description

We're looking for experienced scientists and engineers who are native or fluent in German to help train and evaluate AI agents on realistic professional tasks.

What you'll do:

You'll work in realistic digital workspaces, with documents, spreadsheets, email, chat and industry tools, to create and review the kinds of tasks you handle in your own job. Your work will include:

• Building workspaces: reviewing files, memos and records a real team would have for a project or case.
• Writing tasks: drafting realistic requests in your language that a colleague or client might send, grounded in local practice, regulations and terminology.
• Defining what good looks like: writing clear grading criteria and checking whether an AI agent's work would meet your professional standard.
• Reviewing AI work: going through an agent's step-by-step work, spotting mistakes such as wrong calculations, missed details or incorrect local rules, and correcting them.

Requirements:

• Experience as a scientist or engineer in research or industry (master's or PhD a plus)
• Native or fluent in German
• Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution in Germany
• Comfortable with quantitative analysis, technical documentation and engineering problem solving

Details: Remote, about 21 hours per week, hourly, pilot running Oct 23 to Nov 19.