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Surveying & GIS — Visual Document Understanding

Mercor

AI Expert - Geospatial & Remote Sensing project
United States, Canada $50 – $50/hr June 25, 2026

Job description

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise, building high-quality datasets and evaluation environments across reasoning, multimodal understanding, and real-world professional domains.

Role Overview

Mercor is seeking surveying and GIS experts to contribute to a benchmark dataset project focused on visual document understanding and instruction-following. This role involves designing complex, grounded tasks with clearly defined ground-truth outputs and objective evaluation rubrics for AI benchmarking.

Responsibilities

  • Author complex evaluation tasks in the surveying and GIS domain
  • Work with visual and document-based inputs (e.g., maps, survey plans, GIS layers, spatial datasets)
  • Define clear and verifiable ground-truth answers
  • Design objective evaluation rubrics for AI benchmarking tasks
  • Evaluate AI model outputs for correctness and instruction adherence
  • Ensure tasks are realistic, structured, and domain-grounded
  • Support dataset quality for AI training and evaluation systems

Engagement Details

  • Part-time contract — fully remote
  • Approximately 15–20 hours per week, flexible schedule
  • Project-based assignment
  • US and Canada-based candidates only

Compensation & Payment

  • $50/hour — weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Independent contractor engagement; no H-1B or STEM OPT support
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