Remote Finance Expert - AI Trainer

Overview

Mercor partners with leading AI teams to improve the quality, usefulness, and reliability of general‑purpose conversational AI systems. These systems are used in everyday and professional scenarios, while errors in financial contexts can have significant downstream impact. This project focuses on evaluating and improving how conversational AI systems reason about, explain, and respond to finance‑related queries. Your expertise helps ensure model outputs reflect real‑world financial knowledge, sound quantitative reasoning, and clear professional communication.

• Write and refine prompts to guide model behavior in financial contexts.
• Evaluate LLM‑generated responses to finance‑related user queries for accuracy, reasoning quality, and clarity.
• Conduct fact‑checking using trusted public sources, financial references, and external tools.
• Annotate model responses by identifying strengths, areas of improvement, and factual or conceptual inaccuracies.
• Assess tone, completeness, and appropriateness of responses for real‑world financial use cases.
• Ensure model responses align with expected conversational behavior and system guidelines.
• Apply consistent evaluation standards by following clear taxonomies, benchmarks, and detailed evaluation guidelines.

• Minimum of 5 years of real‑world professional experience in Finance, supported by an associated Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree (e.g., Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business).
• Experience in one or more sub‑domains:
  Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Accounting & Auditing, Asset Management.
• Significant experience using large language models (LLMs) and an understanding of how and why people use them.
• Excellent writing skills and ability to clearly explain complex financial concepts.
• Strong attention to detail and consistently noticing subtle issues others may overlook.

• Prior experience with RLHF, model evaluation, or data annotation work.
• Experience writing or editing high‑quality financial written content.
• Experience translating complex financial ideas for non‑expert audiences.
• Familiarity with evaluation rubrics, benchmarks, or quality scoring systems.

• Identify financial inaccuracies, faulty assumptions, and weak reasoning in model responses.
• Provide feedback that directly improves the accuracy and usefulness of finance‑related AI outputs.
• Deliver clear, reproducible evaluation artifacts for customers to act upon.
• Build trust in Mercor’s AI systems in financial contexts through rigorous evaluation.

At Mercor, you’ll apply your financial expertise to shape how advanced AI systems reason and communicate about complex financial topics. This role offers flexible, remote contract work and the opportunity to influence AI systems used in real‑world financial decision‑making. Compensation is competitive and aligned with expertise and scope.

Remote Finance Expert AI Trainer 105105 per hour
• Raleigh, North Carolina, US