Sustainability Specialist

apartmentMercor placeNew York calendar_month5/10/26

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: Environmental Science Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $50–$70/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. 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 navigating 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.

Qualifications

Must-Have

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, air, water, or waste permitting and monitoring, contaminated-site investigation/remediation, corporate sustainability, ESG reporting, or climate-risk analysis.
Day-to-day use of Esri ArcGIS, Google Maps Platform, SAS, MATLAB, and Socrata.
Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Preferred

MS/PhD in environmental science, engineering, or related discipline.

Compensation & Legal

This project will transition from an hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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Resources & Support

For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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