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MercorData
Research Administration Expert - Fully Remote | Up To $1,450 Part-Time
Remote$1,150–$1,450/taskPosted today
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has notable investors including Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Location: Remote
Salary: $1,150–$1,450/task
Responsibilities
- Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include grant proposals, budgets, IRB/IACUC protocols, and compliance training records.
- Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Navigate multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
- Collaborate with other research-operations and administration experts to design environments and shape task scope.
- 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 directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of full-time experience at a top R1 university, academic medical center, federal research agency, or large research nonprofit.
- Background in 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.
Benefits
- Performance Bonus: Weekly bonus incentive for top performers.
- Transition to hourly compensation based on sustained quality and throughput.
Additional Information
- Application process involves uploading resume, completing an AI interview based on your resume, and submitting a form.
- For details about the interview process and platform, visit https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome.
- For support, contact support@mercor.com.
- Applications are reviewed daily; complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered.