Mercor · Finance & specialist
Materials & Engineering Specialist - review AI outputs in your specialty
Listed on Mercor as “Materials & Engineering Specialist”
What this actually is
You bring your specialist expertise to AI evaluation. The shape of the work varies but the pattern is the same: review outputs, rate quality, write prompts, flag errors. The platform title (Materials & Engineering Specialist) reflects the rate band and the expertise required, not the day-to-day work.
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Can you do this on your visa?
F-2 / F-4 / F-5 / F-6: open. E-1 to E-7: needs concurrent-employment permit. D-2 / D-4 students: S-3 permit, 20 hr/week cap. D-10 / D-8: case by case.
Korean tax on USD income
First 5 years in Korea: foreign-source income only taxed if remitted into Korea. After year 5: worldwide income. Full tax guide.
Original posting from Mercor
About the role
We build materials-science and engineering tasks that test how well an AI model does real expert work. You write a realistic task - a prompt, a data room, and a way to grade it - run it against the model, and tighten it until the model can no longer reason through it cleanly.
What you'll do
- Author domain-authentic tasks drawn from work you've actually done.
- Build the data room and grading criteria that make the task objectively scorable.
- Run the task against the model, analyse where it succeeds or fails, and iterate until it genuinely discriminates.
- Work with the project lead and other domain experts to settle what "good" looks like in your domain.
Who we're looking for
- Senior expertise in materials science - metals, ceramics, composites, characterization, additive manufacturing - or in electrical engineering (analog, RF, power) or mechanical engineering (design, CFD and fluids, heat transfer, pressure vessels, NDE, CAE).
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity - much of the work is still being defined, and shaping it is part of the role.
- Able to explain not just the right answer, but why a wrong answer is wrong.
Support
Daily onboarding sessions and multiple office hours every day.
Quoted from Mercor’s public listing on 2026-09-08. We don’t edit platform copy; honest framing is in the title and the “what this actually is” block above.
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