Economist, Marketplace

ABOUT MERCOR

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development. Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day.

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Economist on the Marketplace team, you will bring economic theory and rigorous empirical methods to the core decision systems that govern how talent and opportunities meet on Mercor. You'll study and shape marketplace dynamics — matching efficiency, pricing, incentives, liquidity, and supply/demand balance — and turn those insights into mechanisms and metrics that directly affect fill rate, hiring speed, earnings, and revenue.

This is a high-impact, applied role at the intersection of economics, data science, and engineering. You'll help design the incentive structures and allocation mechanisms of a rapidly scaling two-sided labor market, and partner closely with ML, product, and engineering to put them into production.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

- Marketplace mechanism design: pricing, incentives, and allocation rules that balance supply and demand

- Causal measurement of marketplace health — liquidity, match quality, fill rate, time-to-hire, and earnings

- Experimentation: A/B and marketplace/switchback experiments to evaluate interventions under interf...