Health Policy Specialist - Fully Remote

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/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 open-data portals.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigation of 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, surveillance, outbreak investigation, health policy, health-services research, program evaluation, population/community health program management, grants administration, cooperative agreements, or federal reporting.
• 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.

Compensation & Legal

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,150–$1,450 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves).
• Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate.
• Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• 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]

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.