Senior Elections Forecaster & Political Risk Analyst
Listed on 2026-10-12
-
Research/Development
Research Analyst -
Government
Obsidian is building expert-authored forecasting and research data used to evaluate and improve AI models on real political and financial analysis. Each task asks a practitioner to reason from a fixed evidence cutoff — no hindsight — and document the judgment a strong analyst would have made at that moment.
This role covers political report authorship: elections, polling, and political-risk events. You will draft point-in-time forecasts and explain the causal mechanisms behind events' political
As a Senior Elections Forecaster & Political Risk Analyst, you will play an important part at Mercor in New York, NY, United States.
The position is based in New York, NY, United States.
This opportunity is part of our work in Management & Operations, IT & Technology.
The advertised compensation is 120..
We aim to respond to suitable candidates as soon as possible.
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).