Full-Time
Finance Expert
Posted on 6/9/2025
Mercor
1,001-5,000 employees
Automates candidate screening and matching
Compensation Overview
$90 - $150/hr
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
Remote in USA + 1 more
More locations: Remote
 Finance & Banking |
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- Minimum of 2 years experience in investment banking or private equity at top U.S. firms.
- Involvement in facilitating major financial transactions (M&A, IPO, etc.)
- Strong understanding of core finance and accounting principles.
- Ability to commit at least 20 hours per week.
- Must be U.S.-based.
- Conduct financial research and analysis for a foundational model AI lab.
- Complete work asynchronously with a flexible schedule.
- Experience handling complex financial deals with major U.S. firms.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting research findings.
Mercor automates the recruitment process by using artificial intelligence to match job seekers with employers. Candidates upload their resumes and complete a 20-minute AI-led video interview, which a large language model analyzes to create a detailed profile of their skills and predicted performance. Unlike traditional recruiters that rely on manual screening, Mercor uses these automated interviews and data-driven matching to vet hundreds of thousands of candidates across various industries simultaneously. The company's goal is to reduce human bias and speed up hiring by providing employers with a pre-vetted pool of talent through a fully automated platform.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$483.6M
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California
Founded
2023
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Frontier AI labs need human experts for training data and evaluation at scale.
- Mercor's APEX-Agents benchmark boosts credibility with buyers measuring professional-task AI performance.
- International sourcing, especially India, expands access to specialized talent and lowers fulfillment costs.
What critics are saying
- The April 2026 LiteLLM breach exposed contractor data, source code, and customer workflows.
- Meta suspended Mercor work, and other customers will tighten vendor reviews immediately.
- The misclassification class action threatens back pay, benefits, and Mercor's contractor-based operating model.
What makes Mercor unique
- Mercor automates hiring with 20-minute AI interviews and performance-based candidate profiles.
- Its marketplace serves AI labs needing domain experts in law, medicine, and banking.
- Mercor pairs recruitment, contractor management, and payouts in one workflow.
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Benefits
A $20K relocation bonus (if moving to the Bay Area)
A $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
A $1K monthly stipend for meals
Free Equinox membership
Generous equity grant
Performance bonus
Health insurance
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7 questions to ask any AI data vendor after a supply-chain security incident. The recent Mercor reporting has become a useful wake-up call for enterprise AI buyers. Mercor confirmed a security incident tied to a LiteLLM-related supply-chain attack, and reports said Meta paused work with the company while investigations continued. For security, procurement, and AI leaders, the lesson is simple: vendor review can no longer stop at the top layer. 1. Where does your data come from, and how is it governed? Ask for specifics on sourcing, consent, licensing, provenance, retention, and deletion. If the answer is vague, that is a warning sign. Shaip's public guidance around AI data collection emphasizes provenance, documentation, privacy safeguards, and structured collection practices. 2. What third-party and open-source tools are embedded in your workflow? A vendor may appear secure while relying on fragile middleware underneath. You need to know what sits between your data and the final workflow output. This matters more now because Mercor publicly linked its incident to LiteLLM and described itself as one of thousands of companies affected by a supply-chain attack. 3. How do you control access to sensitive datasets and evaluation assets? Access restriction, encryption, audit logging, and data segregation should be baseline requirements. 4. What does your quality assurance process actually look like? Look for measurable practices such as multi-tier review, gold datasets, adjudication, and structured correction loops. Shaip's public positioning around human-in-the-loop quality and LLM training data services supports the idea that quality should be engineered into the workflow, not added as a final check. 5. How do you handle edge cases and ambiguous judgments? In enterprise AI, not everything can be automated safely. Some tasks still require domain-sensitive human review. Shaip's public HITL guidance argues that humans should be placed at the highest-leverage points in the workflow, where judgment and accountability matter most. 6. What proof do you have for compliance and security maturity? Ask for evidence, not claims. Buyers should expect clarity on certifications, audits, and operating controls. Shaip publicly references ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA, and SOC 2 on its compliance page. 7. What happens if your ownership, partnerships, or strategic priorities change? This is where neutrality and customer protection matter. Buyers should ask how their data is ring-fenced, whether the vendor's incentives remain aligned with the customer, and how customer interests are protected over time. Shaip's public article on data neutrality argues that neutrality matters because customers need providers whose incentives are aligned with trust, not competing product agendas. Final takeaway. AI data vendors should not be treated like interchangeable service providers. They sit too close to model quality, IP protection, operational continuity, and enterprise trust. The right partner is not simply the one that can deliver fastest. It is the one that can show how data is governed, how workflows are secured, how quality is measured, and how customer interests remain protected. Shaip's public messaging across its site aligns strongly with that trust-first positioning.
After data breach, $10B-valued startup Mercor is having a month. After falling victim to a hacker, Mercor is facing lawsuits and reportedly losing big-name customers.