Research Specialist - Macbook User

Obsidian; Mumbai; On-site; INR 344,000 - 689,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking detail-oriented individuals to support an AI research project with a leading lab. The role involves creating research questions, producing answers, and developing evaluation materials for training language models.

Candidates should have 2–3 years of experience or be pursuing a Masters, with a strong capability in online research and concise summarization. The position is part-time (approximately 10–20 hours/week) with immediate start preferred and no high-pressure commitment

Qualifications

• Requires: Masters in progress or 2–3 years experience plus a Bachelors from a prestigious institution.
• Strong online research and communication skills are essential.
• Ability to gather and summarize information from diverse sources clearly.
• Excellent written communication skills are required.
• Interdisciplinary degree is a plus.
• MacBook with Apple Silicon or M-series required (MacBook Pro/Air).

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality research questions and answers for training AI models.
• Develop evaluation materials to benchmark advanced language models.
• Summarize findings and present clearly to internal teams.
• Start date is immediate and requires a flexible schedule (10–20 hours/week).

Skills

Online research

Written communication

Summarization

Clear information gathering

Education

Master's degree or in-progress

Bachelor's from prestigious institution

Tools

MacBook with Apple Silicon

M-series MacBook Pro or MacBook Air macOS 15+

Job description

Role Overview:

Mercor is looking for detail-oriented individuals with 2-3 years of experience in STEM, non-STEM fields, or currently enrolled postgrad college students to support a research project with a leading AI lab. You will help benchmark and improve cutting-edge AI models.

Qualifications:

• Required: All experts on this project must have a Macbook device with an ‘M’ series chip to perform tasks on.
• Currently pursuing or recently completed Masters studies, or have 2-3 years of relevant experience + Bachelors from a prestigious institution
• Strong online research and communication skills
• Ability to gather and clearly summarize information from diverse sources
• Excellent written communication skills
• Interdisciplinary degree is a nice to have
• Must have a Macbook with one of the following requirements:
  • Apple Silicon (ARM) Macs
  • M‑series MacBook Pro, or
  • MacBook Air models running macOS 15 or higher

Job Details:

• Part-time commitment of approximately 10-20 hours per week
• Responsibilities include creating high-quality research questions, answers, and evaluation materials to train advanced language models
• Clearly structured responsibilities without the high pressure typically found in internships or full-time consulting roles
• Immediate start preferred