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Machine Learning & NLP Expert
- Platform
- Mercor
- Fit category
- Software engineering
- Remote/location
- United States
- Pay
- Firm hourly pay: $80 - $110 / hour
- Eligibility
- Remote, U.S. eligibility signal
- Difficulty
- Highly selective
- Last reviewed
- Jul 10, 2026
What this role involves
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models. A leading AI lab is building and evaluating frontier models and needs experienced machine learning and natural language processing practitioners to act as ground-truth experts. You will author challenging, real-world tasks, generate reference solutions, and evaluate model outputs to surface reasoning and capability gaps in a target model.
Location / eligibility
Remote, U.S. eligibility signal. Listed location: United States. Some opportunities are country-, credential-, tax-, or work-authorization-specific. Check the current Mercor page before applying.
Requirements
- Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models.
- The work centers on designing robust ML and NLP problems, building them out with executable tests where applicable, and then analyzing how models and agents behave against them. All applicants are expected to have working proficiency in Python.
- Spec and golden-solution generation: Integrate the problems into an agentic development environment, preparing all necessary components using Python.
- Deep, hands-on experience in machine learning and/or natural language processing, from applied industry work, research, or a graduate/PhD background in the field.
- Working proficiency in Python, applied in research, industry, or open-source work (not theoretical familiarity).
- Strong command of modern ML/NLP methods, including model training and evaluation, transformers and large language models, and standard tooling.
Best for
- Professionals with direct experience relevant to Machine Learning & NLP Expert
- Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models.
- Applicants who can review specialist work and explain their judgment clearly
Skip this if...
- You do not have direct experience relevant to machine learning & nlp expert
- You need guaranteed acceptance, work, pay, hours, or project duration
- You cannot meet the current location, eligibility, or availability requirements shown on Mercor
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- Prepare concise, non-confidential examples that demonstrate your relevant specialist experience.
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