Research Administration Expert - AI Trainer

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Research Operations & Administration Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $1,150–$1,450/task
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include grant proposals, budgets, IRB/IACUC protocols, financial reports, and compliance records.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Navigate multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with research-operations and administration experts to design environments, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for research-administration agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of full-time experience at a top R1 university , academic medical center, federal research agency, or large research nonprofit.
• Background in areas such as pre-award grants management, post-award financial/compliance management, sponsored-programs administration, research compliance, or core-facility operations.
• Day-to-day use of SharePoint/Box , DocuSign , Mendeley/EndNote , and ADP Workforce Now/UKG Pro .
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Preferred

• Certifications: CRA , CPRA , CFRA .

Compensation & Legal

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,150 – $1,450 per completed task, subject to change).
• Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive.
• Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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