Technical Writer

@ Mercor Hiring

Overview

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI-driven lab to enhance large-language-model performance on realistic reasoning tasks. As a Technical Writer, you will write challenging, creative, and realistic tasks for AI models, create gold-standard solutions, and evaluate AI-generated responses for clarity, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.

Ideal Fit

We are looking for candidates with experience as technical writers, editors, research analysts, academic editors, content reviewers, legislative analysts, reading-comprehension specialists, assessment authors, curriculum designers or instructional designers. You should excel in deep reading, synthesizing diverse domains, and possess strong fact-checking and editing skills. The role requires clear, concise communication and high attention to detail.

Role Details

• Collaborate directly with Mercor coordinators and client research leads.
• Rolling start dates with a quick work trial process.
• Up to 40 hours of work per week, fully remote and asynchronous.
• Project length is a minimum of 6 weeks with potential extensions.

Pay and Legal Status

You will be legally classified as an hourly contractor for Mercor with weekly payments processed via Stripe Connect.

Screening Process

• Complete a short interview and form (20-30 minutes).
• Participate in a paid 4-hour work trial involving domain-specific tasks.
• Currently accepting applicants from the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia.

About Mercor

Mercor specializes in recruiting experts for top AI labs and is based in San Francisco, CA. Investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Key skills/competency

• AI tasks
• Technical writing
• Editing
• Research analysis
• Content review
• Fact-checking
• Deep reading
• Collaborative
• Remote work
• Detail-oriented