Senior Epidemiologist

Mercor

Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Public Health 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 surveillance summaries grant applications program evaluations and health-assessment reports.
Design multi-step tasks based on real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps files and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
Collaborate with other public-health experts to design the environment and shape task scope. Review scenarios for realism and rigor.
Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for public-health agent benchmarks.
Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

3 years of full-time experience at a federal health agency large state/county health department major academic school of public health or F500 population-health organization.
Background in epidemiology surveillance outbreak investigation health policy or program evaluation.
Day-to-day use of Esri ArcGIS Google Maps Platform SAS MATLAB and Socrata/Esri ArcGIS Hub.
Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Preferred

MPH PhD or DrPH. Fluency in biostatistics or GIS.

Compensation & Legal

Transition from an effective hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.

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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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey. Position: Public Health Expert Type: Contract Compensation: $45$65/...

About the job

Position: Public Health 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 surveillance summaries grant applications program evaluations and health-assessment reports.
Design multi-step tasks based on real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps files and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
Collaborate with other public-health experts to design the environment and shape task scope. Review scenarios for realism and rigor.
Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for public-health agent benchmarks.
Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

3 years of full-time experience at a federal health agency large state/county health department major academic school of public health or F500 population-health organization.
Background in epidemiology surveillance outbreak investigation health policy or program evaluation.
Day-to-day use of Esri ArcGIS Google Maps Platform SAS MATLAB and Socrata/Esri ArcGIS Hub.
Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.