STEM Researcher - Fully Remote | Up to $50/hr

Mercor; Madrid; Remote; EUR 21,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced scientists and engineers who are fluent in Spanish to train and evaluate AI agents on realistic professional tasks. You will work in realistic digital workspaces, drafting tasks, defining grading criteria, and reviewing an agent's step-by-step work to ensure accuracy and adherence to local rules.

The role emphasizes experience in research or industry, a Spanish degree from a recognized institution, and strong quantitative and documentation skills.

Qualifications

• Experience as a scientist or engineer in research or industry.
• Comfortable with quantitative analysis, technical documentation and data-heavy problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Train and evaluate AI agents on realistic professional tasks.
• Create and review tasks in digital workspaces with documents, emails, and industry tools.
• Define what good looks like by writing grading criteria and checking agent outputs.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Technical documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Spain

Master's or PhD a plus

Job description

We're looking for experienced scientists and engineers who are native or fluent in Spanish 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 Spanish
• Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution in Spain
• Comfortable with quantitative analysis, technical documentation and data-heavy problem solving

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