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: Manufacturing & Consumer Goods Expert

Type: Contract
Compensation: $45--$65/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include production reports, brand P&L models, S&OP decks, supplier scorecards, BOMs, SOPs, and email threads. Represent enterprise apps like SAP S/4HANA, Siemens Opcenter, and Power BI.
Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents.
Collaborate with other manufacturing and CPG 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 manufacturing-domain 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 Fortune 500 or comparable large enterprise (e.g., P&G, Unilever, PepsiCo, Nestlé, 3M, Kimberly-Clark, or a Tier-1 contract manufacturer).
Background in areas such as plant operations, production management, or operations engineering.
Day-to-day use of enterprise tools like SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Siemens Opcenter, Rockwell FactoryTalk, and Tableau/Power BI.
Strong analytical thinking and writing. Able to translate enterprise workflows into structured task specs.

Preferred

Certifications: PMP, Six Sigma Black/Green Belt, CPIM, CSCP.

Compensation & Legal

This project is expected to begin on an effective hourly rate. It will transition to a model where experts are compensated based on throughput of quality work rather than a flat accruing hourly rate.

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Consumer Goods Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $65/hr - AI Trainer

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