# Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks at Mercor

- Company: Mercor
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $200K–500K
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Skills: Research
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/bebd78ce-5f12-46e9-a285-674e33838211

## Description

ABOUT MERCOR



Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.

 

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.


ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Research Scientist to lead the design of the next generation of APEX benchmarks and the expert-built datasets behind them.



APEX is the AI Productivity Index: a family of benchmarks that measures whether frontier models can do economically valuable professional work. APEX-1 covers single-turn tasks across investment banking, corporate law, consulting and medicine. APEX-Agents tests multi-hour, cross-application agentic work in real tools. APEX-Accounting and APEX-SWE extend that into accounting and real-world software engineering. Every task is 

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