Humanities / arts / culture (Meridian)

Mercor is seeking experienced arts and culture program leaders, humanities educators, and curators to contribute expertise toward frontier AI training and evaluation projects focused on humanities, arts, and cultural reasoning.

This role focuses on supporting AI systems through:

• Rubric-style evaluation tasks
• Humanities reasoning analysis
• LLM prompt design
• AI output evaluation
• Arts and culture workflow assessment

The ideal candidate has prior experience completing Mercor rubric-based tasks and is comfortable evaluating AI-generated humanities and cultural outputs.

Key Responsibilities

• Support projects involving:

  • Humanities
  • Arts and culture
  • Cultural programming
  • Arts education
  • Curation
  • Creative interpretation

• Design and refine:

  • LLM prompts
  • Evaluation rubrics
  • Cultural reasoning tasks

• Evaluate AI-generated outputs for:

  • Historical accuracy
  • Cultural relevance
  • Interpretive quality
  • Communication clarity
  • Contextual understanding

• Apply expertise in:

  • Humanities education
  • Cultural analysis
  • Arts programming
  • Curatorial practices
  • Creative and historical interpretation

• Contribute domain expertise to improve AI systems trained on real-world humanities and cultural scenarios

Ideal Qualifications

• Experience as:

  • Humanities educator
  • Arts program lead
  • Curator
  • Cultural strategist
  • Museum or gallery professional
  • Arts and culture specialist

• Prior experience with:

  • Mercor rubric-style tasks
  • LLM evaluation
  • Prompt design
  • AI output assessment

• Strong:

  • Analytical thinking
  • Cultural interpretation
  • Written communication
  • Critical reasoning

• Ability to assess humanities and arts-related outputs with consistency and rigor

Compensation

• $50–100/hour
• Weekly payments through Stripe or Wise

Contract & Payment Terms

• Independent contractor engagement
• Fully remote work
• Flexible schedule
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded depending on business needs and performance
• Work does not involve access to confidential employer or client information

Important Note

Mercor currently cannot support:

• H1-B candidates
• STEM OPT candidates

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train and improve frontier AI systems using real-world human expertise.

Contributors collaborate with researchers and humanities professionals on projects shaping the future of AI-driven cultural reasoning, arts interpretation, and humanities education systems.