Economist

Mercor

📍 toronto, on, Canada

Full-time Finance Posted June 01, 2026

Job Description

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: Economics & Finance Assessment Specialist

Type: Contract

Compensation: $40–$90/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 10+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

  • Author original economics and finance questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
  • Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined. All necessary information must be in the problem statement.
  • Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-grad...