[Hiring] Health Policy Analyst @Mercor

Role Description

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily, including:
  • Surveillance summaries
  • Grant applications
  • Program evaluations
  • Health-assessment reports
• Design multi-step tasks based on real workflows, requiring navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other public-health experts to design the environment and shape task scope, reviewing scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for public-health agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking, informing how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

• Must-Have:
  • 3+ years of full-time experience at a federal health agency, large state/county health department, major academic school of public health, or F500 population-health organization.
  • Background in epidemiology, surveillance, outbreak investigation, health policy, or program evaluation.
  • Day-to-day use of Esri ArcGIS, Google Maps Platform, SAS, MATLAB, and Socrata/Esri ArcGIS Hub.
  • Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.
• Preferred:
  • MPH, PhD, or DrPH.
  • Fluency in biostatistics or GIS.

Requirements

• Transition from an effective hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.

Application Process

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

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