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Программа Mercor Research Fellowship — APEX

40 000–80 000 ₽в месяц · до вычета

РЫНОК

26 250 ₽медиана по профессии

AI Researcher · 36 вакансий с указанной зарплатой

5 600половина предложений: 16 785–65 900143 300

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Обязанности

01Propose and scope a new benchmark or evaluation technique in a domain APEX doesn't yet cover well, or a meaningfully harder version of one it does
02Design task specifications and grading rubrics in partnership with Mercor's network of vetted domain experts
03Build and validate the benchmark: pilot tasks, calibrate scoring, and stress-test for contamination and gameable shortcuts
04Run frontier models against your benchmark and analyze where and why they fail
05Publish your results as a paper, an open dataset, a new leaderboard on APEX, or a methodology the APEX team adopts internally
06Partner with Mercor's research and engineering teams to fold what you learn back into APEX's public benchmark family

01Genuine interest in evaluation as a research discipline
02Background in CS, ML, statistics, or an adjacent field (measurement, psychometrics, HCI, social science)
03A specific, well-scoped idea for a benchmark or eval technique you want to build
04Comfortable in a startup environment: fast iteration, direct access to real customer problems, less hand-holding than an academic lab
05Able to commit at least 20 hours/week for the duration of the fellowship

01Duration: 3–6 months, rolling admission
02Commitment: minimum 30 hours/week; full-time preferred
03Location: remote, or in-person at Mercor's San Francisco office
04Admission: apply with a specific benchmark or eval technique you want to build
053 month stipend of $40,000 or 6 month stipend of $80,000
06Unlimited API credits, plus a dedicated budget for GPU compute and paid expert/human-data time
07Weekly 1:1 mentorship with a member of the APEX research team
08Access to frontier model APIs, Mercor's internal evaluation infrastructure, and real enterprise evaluation problems
09Optional desk in Mercor's San Francisco office for fellows who want to be in person
10Introductions to Mercor's network of researchers across frontier labs and academia
11Standout fellows are considered for a full-time offer on the APEX research team at the end of the fellowship