Finance AI Specialist

1. Role Overview

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research group to develop finance-specific knowledge systems for advanced AI agents. We are seeking finance experts with strong AI prompting capabilities to create structured guides that transform general-purpose AI into domain-specialized financial tools. This is a project-based opportunity ideal for professionals with both deep finance expertise and practical experience using AI for workflow enhancement. If you are not skilled at working with AI models, this project will not be a good fit. We are only looking for experts from the US, Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand.

2. Key Responsibilities

• Translate complex finance concepts into AI-readable formats

• Prompt, test, and refine AI agents for improved domain-specific performance

• Create reusable instructions, templates, and best practices for AI agents

• Potential to collaborate asynchronously with AI researchers on validation and design

3. Ideal Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in finance, investment banking, private equity, or hedge fund experience preferred

• Strong practical understanding of financial modeling, transactions, or research workflows

• Demonstrated expertise using and prompting AI tools (e.g., GPT, Claude, etc.)

• Ability to write clear, structured content for both human and AI consumption

• Self-directed, highly organized, and able to work independently

4. More About the Opportunity

• Expected time commitment: minimum 10 hours/week

• Opportunity to shape how AI systems learn and reason in the finance domain

6. Application Process

• We’re looking to get started as soon as possible so we’ll be following up with the top applicants as quickly as we can!

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.