Mercor Benefits Overview

The Strategic Project Lead will drive execution of multi-million-dollar projects, optimize processes, and manage a large team while maintaining client relationships.

Mercor is offering $5 million in grants for research on AI capabilities, including real-world evaluations, interactive environments, long-horizon tasks, agentic systems, reasoning, post-training, and evaluation methodology. Academic groups, independent researchers, and nonprofits may apply with a focused proposal. Applicants should describe their team, background, research accomplishments, project, expected outputs, impact, timeline, and resource needs. Funded projects are expected to produce public research, datasets, methodologies, or tools.

Mercor is offering $5 million in grants for independent researchers, academics, PhD students, and small teams conducting frontier AI safety research. Focus areas include misalignment, sandbox escape, evaluation awareness, interpretability, oversight and control, and red-teaming. Funding may support researcher time, API credits, and conference attendance. Applicants should submit a focused expression of interest describing their team, background, research proposal, outputs, impact, timelines, and resource needs.