Investment Banking Expert

Role Overview

• Mercor is seeking senior investment banking professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems operating in Fortune 500 enterprise M&A and capital markets contexts.

• The workflows are calibrated to the deal complexity, stakeholder sensitivity, and transaction stakes of Fortune 500 M&A, capital raises, and large-cap advisory mandates.

• Contributors design enterprise investment banking scenarios, draft reference outputs, and write rubrics that capture how senior F500-focused bankers think.

Key Responsibilities

• Construct enterprise investment banking scenarios spanning $1B+ M&A transactions, multi-stakeholder deal committees, and complex capital markets or regulatory review cycles.

• Build tasks across M&A advisory, equity and debt capital markets, leveraged finance, valuation and financial modeling, and pitch/deal execution.

• Develop deal execution scenarios involving tools such as Bloomberg, Capital IQ, FactSet, and enterprise financial modeling and deal-management platforms used in bulge-bracket workflows.

• Apply enterprise investment banking methodologies (DCF/comparable company/precedent transaction analysis, LBO modeling, fairness opinion standards) and produce reference pitch books, valuation models, and executive/board-level deal narratives.

• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic investment banking judgment from generic textbook or interview-prep-level recall.

Ideal Qualifications

• 5+ years working in M&A advisory, capital markets, or leveraged finance at a bulge-bracket bank, elite boutique, or major financial institution (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Evercore, Lazard).

• Direct ownership of F500-scale deal execution, capital raises, or advisory mandates.

• Fluency in investment banking tooling, valuation methodologies, and deal-process mechanics, plus understanding of how F500 board approvals, regulatory review (SEC, antitrust), and legal/due diligence processes actually work.

• Prior rubric, financial-modeling curriculum, or pitch book/deal documentation authorship is a plus.

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.