Civic and Public Administration Expert

About this role

**Role Overview** Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs on **Project Atlas** — an initiative to build realistic enterprise environments that frontier AI agents are trained and evaluated in. We're seeking experienced civic and public-administration professionals from **federal agencies, large state and city governments, and major federal contractors** (e.g., Deloitte GPS, Accenture Federal, Booz Allen, Leidos) to recreate the digital workspaces they run every day and design the tasks that genuinely challenge state-of-the-art AI. You'll bring your expertise in public-sector program management, policy implementation, procurement, or public-finance administration to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and workflows of a modern government enterprise — and then author tasks grounded in the programs you actually run today. **Key Responsibilities** - Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day — the policy memos, program plans, budget justifications, RFPs, constituent correspondence, council / board materials, performance reports, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work — with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Salesforce Government Cloud / Granicus, Socrata / ArcGIS Hub, DocuSign) - Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents - Collaborate with other civic and public-administration experts in your field to design the environment, shape task scope, and review each other's 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 — the work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems **Ideal Qualifications** - 3+ years of full-time experience at a **federal agency, large state / city government, or major federal contractor** - Background in one or more areas such as: - Federal program management, policy implementation, or performance reporting (GPRAMA) - Government procurement / contracting (FAR, DFARS, state procurement) - Public finance, budgeting, or grants management - Public safety, social-services, or licensing / benefits administration - Legislative affairs, intergovernmental relations, or municipal operations - Certifications a plus: PMP, CGFM, FAC-C / DAWIA - Day-to-day use of Salesforce Government Cloud / Granicus, Socrata / Esri ArcGIS Hub, and DocuSign - Strong analytical thinking and writing — able to translate public-sector workflows into structured task specs **Compensation Note** - **Task Completion Pay:** Competitive and based on task quality (~$850 – $1000 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves) - **Performance Bonus:** Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate! - **Hourly Opportunity:** Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.

Eligible applicant countries

This role accepts applicants from:

• USA

Skills & domains

• ai-training
• rlhf
• sme
• annotation
• Life, Physical, and Social Science