Finance Expert at Mercor

Finance Expert | $105/hr | Worldwide Remote

Mercor is seeking experienced finance professionals to evaluate and improve how conversational AI systems reason about and respond to finance-related queries. Apply your financial expertise to shape the future of AI in financial contexts.

Why This Role Exists

Mercor partners with leading AI teams to improve the quality, usefulness, and reliability of general-purpose conversational AI systems. In financial contexts, even small errors or unclear reasoning can have significant downstream impact. This project focuses on evaluating and improving how conversational AI systems reason about, explain, and respond to finance-related queries. Your expertise helps ensure model outputs reflect real-world financial knowledge, sound quantitative reasoning, and clear professional communication.

What You'll Do

• Write and refine prompts to guide model behavior in financial contexts
• Evaluate LLM-generated responses to finance-related user queries for accuracy, reasoning quality, and clarity
• Conduct fact-checking using trusted public sources, financial references, and external tools
• Annotate model responses by identifying strengths, areas of improvement, and factual or conceptual inaccuracies
• Assess tone, completeness, and appropriateness of responses for real-world financial use cases
• Ensure model responses align with expected conversational behavior and system guidelines
• Apply consistent evaluation standards by following clear taxonomies, benchmarks, and detailed evaluation guidelines

Who You Are

• Minimum of 5 years of real-world professional experience in Finance, supported by an associated Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree (e.g., Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related fields)
• Experience in one or more of the following sub-domains: Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Accounting & Auditing, or Asset Management
• Significant experience using large language models (LLMs) and understand how and why people use them
• Excellent writing skills with the ability to clearly explain complex financial concepts
• Strong attention to detail and consistently notice subtle issues others may overlook
• Fluent in English

Nice-to-Have Specialties

• Prior experience with RLHF, model evaluation, or data annotation work
• Experience writing or editing high-quality financial written content
• Experience translating complex financial ideas for non-expert audiences
• Familiarity with evaluation rubrics, benchmarks, or quality scoring systems

What Success Looks Like

• You identify financial inaccuracies, faulty assumptions, and weak reasoning in model responses
• Your feedback directly improves the accuracy and usefulness of finance-related AI outputs
• You deliver clear, reproducible evaluation artifacts that customers can act on
• Mercor customers trust their AI systems in financial contexts because you've rigorously evaluated them

Why Join Mercor

At Mercor, you'll apply your financial expertise to shape how advanced AI systems reason and communicate about complex financial topics. This role offers flexible, remote contract work and the opportunity to influence AI systems used in real-world financial decision-making. Compensation is competitive and aligned with expertise and scope.