Writing Expert

Role Overview Mercor is collaborating with leading AI labs to engage highly accomplished creative writers—novelists, journalists, short story authors, and essayists—for advanced AI training projects. Contributors will apply their literary and editorial expertise to improve AI systems’ ability to generate nuanced, high-quality narrative content. This work emphasizes strong storytelling, stylistic precision, and editorial judgment informed by published and awarded experience. This is a project-based opportunity with flexible participation. Key Responsibilities

• Review and refine AI-generated content across articles, long form essays, novels, short stories, and other pieces of writing

• Evaluate outputs for literary quality, structure, tone, and thematic depth

• Provide detailed editorial feedback to improve coherence and originality

Ideal Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in creative writing, including journalism, essays, novel writing, and short fiction

• A substantial body of published work (e.g., books, bylines, or multiple short stories in recognized outlets)

• Work featured in prestigious literary publications, journals, anthologies, or professional productions

• Recipient of recognized literary awards, fellowships, or honors

• Editors (including book, acquisitions, and developmental editors), literary agents, manuscript readers, literary scouts, documentary writers, speechwriters, memoir ghostwriters, critics, and other publishing or editorial professionals with significant experience evaluating high-quality written work may also be considered

• Exceptional command of narrative craft, including structure, voice, dialogue, and character development across formats

• Strong ability to critique and refine written work with attention to style, coherence, and thematic depth

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.