Chemicals Safety Red-Teamer
$65-$75/hrSTEM & research
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Mercor review
Contracts for professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers, traders) evaluating and red-teaming frontier AI models.
Mercor recruits professionals such as physicians, lawyers, engineers and consultants to help AI labs measure and improve their models on real professional work. It reports an average contracted rate of $92/hr and has created more than 690,000 roles.
What the work looks like
Current listings include sales and marketing experts, chemical-safety red-teamers and retail traders. Many projects build benchmarks (Mercor runs the APEX benchmark family) or evaluate how well AI agents complete real tasks.
Getting started
After you are hired you get an onboarding document in the Contracts tab, a @mercor.expert email, access to Slack,
Airtable or Notion, and the Insightful time tracker. You log time only while actively working. Payouts go through Stripe
or Wise.
Pros and cons
Pros
- High average rate for professional expertise
- Contracts with clear onboarding documents and project leads
- Pays more than $4M per day in total
Cons
- Projects can be paused, with weekly hours capped at zero
- Time tracking software runs while you work
What you need to apply
- Interview and assessment for each role
- Background check for some contracts
- Insightful time-tracking app (Windows 10+ or macOS 11+)
How Mercor pays you
Set up one of these accounts before you start so your first payout is not delayed:
Stripe Connect
You do not need to create a Stripe account in advance, the platform invites you during onboarding.
Wise
Use your Wise USD account details on platforms that pay by ACH or bank transfer to avoid international wire fees.
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