About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality healthcare reasoning data. We're hiring Emergency Medicine experts to design clinical scenarios, evaluate model outputs against evidence-based standards, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about acute and emergency care.

We welcome EM attendings, EM/IM and EM/Peds dual-boarded physicians, EM medical directors, and final-year EM residents.

What You'll Do

Design clinically realistic prompts and scenarios drawn from your EM practice (triage, undifferentiated chief complaints, resuscitation, procedural sedation, disposition decisions)

Write "golden" reference responses at attending-level quality

Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics

Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior

Participate in onboarding office hours and specialty calibration sessions

Who You Are

Attending physicians: Must be board certified with current, active, unrestricted medical license

Resident physicians: Must be in final year of residency (recent graduates must be board-eligible)

Fellows: Must be board-certified/board-eligible in primary specialty and have current active, unrestricted medical license

Rates

$130–$300/hr payable, set per seniority tier (early-career → senior attending). Your specific rate is confirmed in your offer.

Engagement

Remote, 100% asynchronous

20 hrs/wk default (can be raised after onboarding based on demand)

Paid weekly via Mercor

Start: rolling, after onboarding sign-off

Duration: ongoing, reviewed monthly

Before Your First Task

You'll receive an onboarding doc and a calendar invite for Onboarding Office Hours after you accept.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.