Social Work Expert - 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: Social Work Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $40–$55/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include case notes, assessments, service plans, referrals, progress reports, grant/outcome reports, program narratives, and email threads. Represent platforms like Apricot (Bonterra), Salesforce Nonprofit, DocuSign, and SharePoint.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other social-work 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 social-services 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 large hospital system, county DHS/DCF, or major nonprofit/behavioral-health organization.
• 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.

Preferred

• LCSW/LMSW/equivalent state licensure strongly preferred.
• Background in clinical/medical social work, child/adult protective services, school social work, juvenile-justice social work, macro social work, or substance-use/mental-health program operations.

Compensation & Legal

• This project will transition from an effective hourly rate to a model based on throughput of quality work.

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.