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Political Risk Expert AI Trainer

$100 per hour
Full-time

Mercor

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Local Political Expert Elections Forecasting & Political Risk



Type: Contract



Compensation: $100$200/hour



Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Author point-in-time political reports and forecasts from a stated evidence cutoff.
  • Make and document directional judgments about polling win probabilities and market-implied odds.
  • Explain the causal mechanism behind an events expected political and market impact.
  • Review model-generated analyses and grade them against your own standard.
  • Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Local political analysts with hands-on experience on specific races in swing states.
  • On-the-ground knowledge of the electorate candidates and the local political environment.
  • A record of making live judgments about polling win probabilities or odds in those races.
  • Strong polling literacy and causal event analysis.
  • Typically 8 years of direct experience or unusually strong evidence of equivalent performance.

Preferred

  • Backgrounds in political science departments and survey research centers at universities in the target states.
  • Experience with state and regional pollsters state-level campaign and party analytics teams.
  • Decision desks or race-ratings outlets with state-specific coverage.
  • National forecasting or political-risk experience with deep knowledge of a specific state.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

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

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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