About this role
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for mathematical judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.
This is a standing listing for mathematicians who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week.
New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.
What the work looks like
We match mathematicians in the network to projects like
- Writing a problem at research or competition level, with the statement and the intended solution, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against
- Grading model-written proofs: whether each step follows, whether the edge cases are handled, whether an appeal to a known theorem actually satisfies its hypotheses
- Flagging where a model reaches a correct answer through an argument that does not prove it
Most contracts in this field have paid $40 to $75 an hour, set per project by scope and depth.
What we're looking for
- A graduate degree in mathematics or a related field, or an equivalent research or competition background
- Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
- Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions