Job Description
About Mercor Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development. Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day. 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 Learning Designer to build the instructional infrastructure that powers Mercor's human data operations – both for our internal teams and the thousands of talent experts who execute complex AI training tasks. Your work will span three key areas: Project-level instructional design : Review and improve project guidelines, rubrics, and instruction documents to maximize clarity and task performance for our talent experts to complete data annotation and evaluation work Transform complex task specifications into well-structured instructional materials that talent experts can follow accurately Partner with project teams to identify where documentation gaps are causing quality issues and design solutions Centralized learning academies : Build centralized academy programs for complex data types related to post-training for LLMs Create structured upskilling pathways that prepare talent experts for increasingly sophisticated project work Develop assessments and certification frameworks that validate readiness for specific project types Internal training systems : D