ML Challenge Task Auditor
MercorLegit · not rated yetPosted on 28 Aug 2026
Pay: $70–90/hr
- Who can apply
- Open only to people in United States
- Hours
- 40 hrs/week · Contract
- Where
- Remote, work from home
- Job type
- Expert (SME) review
- Openings
- 3 openings
At a glance: A contract, remote expert (SME) review job with Mercor. It pays $70–90/hr for 40 hours a week. Only people in United States can apply.
What happens after you click Apply
- You leave AI Trainer HQ and go to Mercor’s own site.
- Upload your résumé on work.mercor.com
- Confirm your work authorization
- Sit the AI interview, which takes about 20 minutes
- Complete any written assessment attached to the listing
- On receiving an offer, sign it, configure payouts and verify your identity
How this pay compares
This job pays more than 56% of the 120 other finance & accounting jobs on the board that state pay; 38% pay more.
- This job
- $80/hrMiddle of $70–90/hr
- Median on Mercor
- $80/hrFrom 295 other paid jobs
- Median in finance & accounting
- $65/hrFrom 120 other paid jobs
Requirements
- Qualifications
- Not specified in the listing
- Languages
- English
- Equipment
- Computer with a reliable internet connection
About this job
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and methodological rigor of applied machine-learning tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess experiment design, model-selection reasoning, and evaluation methodology — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback.
Basic Qualifications
• 3+ years hands-on applied/experimental ML (experiment design, model selection, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation methodology)
• Strong grasp of data-quality rigor: leakage detection, metric gaming, and train/test/CV hygiene
• Proficiency with standard ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost)
• Ability to critique ML claims against evidence and reproduce results
Preferred Qualifications
• Competition / benchmark experience (e.g., Kaggle)
• Graduate research or publication record in applied ML
• Prior task-grading or peer-review experience
Note: this role evaluates applied/experimental ML rigor — it is not an LLM-application-building or MLOps role.
Listing history
- First seen on our board
- (9 days ago)
- Posted by Mercor
- Last checked
- Source
- Mercor
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