Environmental Scientist - Fully Remote | Up To $1450 Part-Time

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has notable investors including Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Location: Remote

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

Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include site assessment reports, permit applications, monitoring data summaries, and more. Represent platforms like Esri ArcGIS, SAS, MATLAB, and Socrata.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other environmental-science 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 environmental-science 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.

Requirements

• 3+ years of full-time experience at a federal/state environmental agency, major environmental consulting firm, F500 sustainability team, or R1 university.
• Background in environmental assessment and compliance, permitting and monitoring, site investigation/remediation, or sustainability reporting.
• Day-to-day use of Esri ArcGIS, Google Maps Platform, SAS, MATLAB, and Socrata.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Benefits

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,150–$1,450 per completed task).
• Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive.
• Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may transition to an hourly compensation model.

Additional Information

• Application process involves uploading resume, AI interview based on resume, and submitting a form.
• Application review is daily, and completing the steps is necessary for consideration.