Research Fellowship — APEX

About Mercor:

• Mercor organizes human intelligence to power the AI economy by building between human expertise and frontier models.
• It is a leading AI data company with millions of domain experts paid over $4 million per day to train AI models.
• Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion with in-person offices in San Francisco, NYC, and London.

About the Fellowship:

• The Mercor Research Fellowship funds people to build the next generation of benchmarks and evaluation techniques.
• You pitch a benchmark or eval methodology and, if selected, receive time, compute, expert labor, and mentorship to design and release it.
• The fellowship is 3–6 months, remote or in-person in San Francisco, with a stipend of $40,000 or $80,000.

What You’ll Do:

• Propose and scope a new benchmark or evaluation technique in a domain APEX doesn't yet cover.
• Design, build, and validate the benchmark with domain experts, including task specifications and scoring.
• Run frontier models against your benchmark, analyze failures, and publish results as a paper or dataset.

Compensation Benefits:

• Unlimited API credits and dedicated GPU compute budget.
• Weekly 1:1 mentorship with APEX research team.
• Optional desk in Mercor’s San Francisco office and network introductions.