Help Desk Technician

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: IT Support Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $50$70/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build long-horizon IT tasks with deterministic rubrics to evaluate agent performance.
• Develop scenarios in Helpdesk with tickets having known resolutions and diagnostic steps.
• Create Identity and Access scenarios for provisioning with defined role-based outcomes and SSO/MFA issues.
• Design Endpoint and SaaS scenarios for device setup and license management against specified targets.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and improve task quality.
• Collaborate to ensure tasks have checkable answers without subjective judgment.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2 years in IT support helpdesk or sysadmin.
• Expertise in identity and access (Okta Active Directory Entra ID) endpoint management (Jamf Intune) M365 or Google Workspace admin ticketing ops (Jira ServiceNow).
• Comfortable with IT artifacts: tickets runbooks access-change requests incident write-ups.
• Clear written communication; can articulate reasoning and encode it into deterministic rubrics.

Preferred

• CompTIA ITIL or equivalent certifications.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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