Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Civic and Public Administration Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $45$65/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include policy memos program plans budget justifications RFPs constituent correspondence council/board materials performance reports and email threads. Represent platforms like Salesforce Government Cloud Granicus Socrata ArcGIS Hub and DocuSign .
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps files and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other civic and public-administration experts to design the environment shape task scope and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for public-sector agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3 years of full-time experience at a federal agency large state/city government or major federal contractor .
• Background in federal program management policy implementation or performance reporting ( GPRAMA ).
• Experience in government procurement/contracting ( FAR DFARS state procurement).
• Expertise in public finance budgeting or grants management.
• Involvement in public safety social services or licensing/benefits administration.
• Knowledge of legislative affairs intergovernmental relations or municipal operations.

Preferred

• PMP CGFM FAC-C / DAWIA certifications.
• Day-to-day use of Salesforce Government Cloud Granicus Socrata Esri ArcGIS Hub and DocuSign .
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills. Ability to translate public-sector workflows into structured task specs.

Compensation & Legal

• Compensation transitions from an hourly rate to a model based on throughput of quality work.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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