Workforce Development Specialist

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 D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: Vocational Training Expert Type: Contract Compensation: $40–$55/hour Location: Remote Role Responsibilities Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily.

Include curricula, competency rubrics, lesson plans, apprentice records, credentialing paperwork, and email threads. Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents .

Collaborate with vocational and workforce-training 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 workforce-training 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 large community college system , major union training trust, or Fortune 500 corporate training / L&D organization . Background in curriculum and instructional design for skilled trades or technical programs.

Experience in apprenticeship program administration (DOL/state-registered). Competency-based assessment and credentialing (NOCTI, NCCER, etc.). Workforce development policy and funding (WIOA, Perkins).

Corporate training / L&D with a technical or manufacturing emphasis. Day-to-day use of platforms like Google Classroom , Google Forms , and SharePoint / Box . Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Able to translate training workflows into structured task specs. Compensation & Legal This project starts on an effective hourly rate. It will transition to a model where experts are compensated based on throughput of quality work.

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