[Hiring] Curriculum Designer @Mercor

Role Description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Vocational Training Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $40–$55/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily, including curricula, competency rubrics, lesson plans, apprentice records, credentialing paperwork, and email threads.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows, requiring navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with vocational and workforce-training experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for workforce-training agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking, directly informing how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time experience at a large community college system, major union training trust, or Fortune 500 corporate training / L&D organization.
• Background in curriculum and instructional design for skilled trades or technical programs.
• Experience in apprenticeship program administration (DOL/state-registered).
• Competency-based assessment and credentialing (NOCTI, NCCER, etc.).
• Workforce development policy and funding (WIOA, Perkins).
• Corporate training / L&D with a technical or manufacturing emphasis.
• Day-to-day use of platforms like Google Classroom, Google Forms, and SharePoint/Box.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills, able to translate training workflows into structured task specs.

Requirements

• This project starts on an effective hourly rate and will transition to a model where experts are compensated based on throughput of quality work.

Application Process

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

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
• Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.