Public Health Expert - Epidemiology

About the job

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: Public Health Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $1,150–$1,450 per completed task

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include surveillance summaries, grant applications, program evaluations, health-assessment reports, policy briefs, outbreak write-ups, and email threads. Represent platforms like Esri ArcGIS , SAS , MATLAB , and Socrata .
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other public-health 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 public-health agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs 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, health policy, program management, or population health.
• Day-to-day use of Esri ArcGIS , Google Maps Platform , SAS , MATLAB , and Socrata .
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Preferred

• MPH , PhD , or DrPH .
• Fluency in biostatistics or GIS.

Compensation & Legal

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,150–$1,450 per completed task).
• Performance Bonus: Weekly bonus incentive for top performers.
• Hourly Opportunity: Potential transition to hourly compensation based on sustained quality and throughput.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

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