Humanities Expert

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Vor Ort; USD 62.000 - 83.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mercor maintains a standing humanities pool for AI training and evaluation. This listing is not a single opening but a continuously open pool that matches scholars to projects when needed. New projects can start on short notice, and the rate is posted per project, typically between $45 and $60 per hour.

If you have a graduate degree in humanities or equivalent scholarly experience, you can join. Work involves writing questions, grading model outputs, and flagging misinterpretations, with

Qualifikationen

• Graduate degree in a humanities field or equivalent scholarly or professional experience.
• Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions

Aufgaben

• Write a question from your field, with sources, context, and the interpretive problem, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against.
• Grade model-written interpretation and argument: check sources, reasoning, and context for accuracy.
• Flag when a model produces fluent prose that misreads text, ignores debate, or invents a citation.

Kenntnisse

Clear written communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Scholarly judgment

Ausbildung

Graduate degree in humanities

Jobbeschreibung

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for humanities judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.

This is a standing listing for humanities scholars who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week.

New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.

What the work looks like

We match scholars in the network to projects like:

• Writing a question from your own field, with the sources, the context, and the interpretive problem, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against
• Grading model-written interpretation and argument: whether the sources say what the model claims, whether the reasoning holds, whether the historical or cultural context is right
• Flagging where a model produces fluent, confident prose that misreads the text, flattens a live scholarly debate, or invents a citation

Listings in this field on Mercor have posted at $45 to $60 an hour, set per project by scope and depth.

What we're looking for

• A graduate degree in a humanities field, or equivalent scholarly or professional experience
• Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions

What this covers

This pool spans the humanities, including:

• History; classics
• Philosophy; ethics and logic
• Literature
• Religious studies; cultural studies

Where you trained matters less than whether you can tell a strong reading from a merely plausible one, and say precisely where the weaker one fails.

How it works

We verify your background and add you to the humanities pool.

When a project needs your field, we invite matching people from the pool to that specific listing. It names the rate, the hours, and the client, and any hiring decision is made there.

What to expect

This listing does not accept or reject candidates, so you will not get a decision on it. We reach out when a project matches your background. Depending on what our clients are running, that can be within a week or several months.

Finishing the domain expert interview and joining every network you qualify for both improve your odds of being matched. You only need to sign up once to be eligible across all of them.