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# Machine Learning Expert

- **Company:** Mercor, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $145,600.0 - $249,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Training Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_bc56e854

## About the Role

Must-Have

 * Professional experience training, evaluating, or deploying machine learning systems.
 * Clear written communication skills for explaining reasoning.
 * Comfort with ambiguous tasks and willingness to flag unclear instructions.

## Description

* Write modeling problems from systems you have shipped, including data, objectives, constraints, and reference answers for model grading.
 * Grade model-written training and evaluation code, ensuring loss matches objectives, and evaluating set integrity.
 * Flag models proposing approaches that might fail in production due to distribution shift, label noise, or incorrect metric rewards.
 * Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
 * Collaborate with AI research teams to enhance training data quality and downstream performance.