Role Overview
Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs on Project Atlas — an initiative to build realistic enterprise environments that frontier AI agents are trained and evaluated in. We're seeking experienced clinical and macro social-work professionals from large hospital systems, county departments of human / social services, and major nonprofit organizations (e.g., Catholic Charities, Red Cross, United Way, large behavioral-health networks) to recreate the digital workspaces they run every day and design the tasks that genuinely challenge state-of-the-art AI.
You'll bring your expertise in clinical social work, case management, child or adult protective services, or community / policy social work to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and workflows of a modern social-services organization — and then author tasks grounded in the cases and programs you actually run today.
Key Responsibilities
- Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day — the case notes, assessments, service plans, referrals, progress reports, grant / outcome reports, program narratives, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work — with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Apricot (Bonterra) or Salesforce Nonprofit, DocuSign, SharePoint)
- Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents
- Collaborate with other social-work experts in your field to design the environment, shape task scope, and review each other's scenarios for realism and rigor
- Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for social-services agent benchmarks
- Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking — the work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems
Ideal Qualifications
- LCSW / LMSW / equivalent state licensure strongly preferred
- 3+ years of full-time experience at a large hospital system, county DHS / DCF, or major nonprofit / behavioral-health organization
- Background in one or more areas such as:
- Clinical / medical social work (hospital, oncology, palliative, behavioral health)
- Child or adult protective services / case management
- School social work or juvenile-justice social work
- Macro social work (policy, community organizing, program administration)
- Substance-use / mental-health program operations
- Day-to-day use of Salesforce Nonprofit / Apricot (Bonterra), DocuSign, and SharePoint / Box
- Strong analytical thinking and writing — able to translate social-work practice into structured task specs
Compensation Note
This project is expected to begin on an effective hourly rate, but will transition to a model where experts are compensated based on throughput of quality work rather than a flat accruing hourly rate.
About Mercor
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