Environmental Scientist [Remote]
$50 - $70 per hourMercor
New York, NY
- Remote job
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: Environmental Science Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $50–$70/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include site assessment reports, permit applications, monitoring data summaries, and more. Represent platforms like Esri ArcGIS , SAS , MATLAB , and Socrata .
- Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
- Collaborate with other environmental-science experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
- Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for environmental-science agent benchmarks.
- Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 3+ years of full-time experience at a federal/state environmental agency, major environmental consulting firm, F500 sustainability team, or R1 university .
- Background in environmental assessment and compliance, air, water, or waste permitting and monitoring, contaminated-site investigation/remediation, corporate sustainability, ESG reporting, or climate-risk analysis.
- Day-to-day use of Esri ArcGIS , Google Maps Platform , SAS , MATLAB , and Socrata .
- Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.
Preferred
- MS/PhD in environmental science, engineering, or related discipline.
Compensation & Legal
- This project will transition from an hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
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- Submit form
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Vacancy posted 28 days ago
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