Public Benefits Application Specialists

Mercor is recruiting experts to join a first-of-its-kind AI research project at the frontier of artificial intelligence. This initiative focuses on helping AI systems better understand and complete real-world tasks in the sociual services and public benefits realm by designing high-quality prompts, executions, and evaluation rubrics.

AI is already strong at answering factual questions; but it struggles with nuanced, real-life activities. Your expertise will help bridge that gap.

About the Role

As an Expert Contributor, you will use your real-world experience to design and execute tasks that reflect how people actually interact with AI systems.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Claiming tasks across key social services and public benefit services that people commonly ask AI to help with

_(e.g., seeking low-cost or free medical and mental health care, applying for disability, shopping for health insurance plans, applying for SNAP, SSDI, Medicaid, etc.)_

• Writing a clear, realistic prompt for the task

• Executing the task and providing evidence of completion

• Writing a detailed evaluation rubric to assess AI performance on that task

Working Hours & Flexibility

• Minimum commitment of 10 hours per week

Additional Details

• This is an ongoing research project with long-term potential

• A desktop or laptop computer is required (Chromebooks are not supported)

Compensation

• Pay: $40 – $100/hour
• Type: Hourly contract
• Location: Remote