Investment Banking Expert

Employer description and requirements

Role Overview

• Mercor is hiring experienced investment bankers to build and review evaluation tasks for AI agents.
• Each task is set in a realistic simulated bank or deal team, with the filings, models, data-room documents, emails and deal tools bankers really work from.
• You make sure each task reads like a real request, the reference model and outputs hold up against the source documents, and the grading rubric checks what a VP or MD would check.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine AI-drafted task prompts so they read like a real request from a deal team or client, without giving the answer away.
• Check reference models and outputs against the world's files and app records, and correct what is wrong.
• Write and tighten grading rubrics: pass/fail criteria with exact values, plus the judgment calls a generalist would miss.
• Read how leading AI models attempt each task and confirm they fail for fair, defensible reasons.
• Work across sell-side and buy-side M&A, purchase-price mechanics and diligence, comps, precedents, DCF, LBO and merger models, IPOs and follow-ons, debt capital markets and leveraged finance, restructuring and liability management, and sector coverage from FIG and healthcare to TMT, consumer, industrials and energy.

Ideal Qualifications

• 3+ years in investment banking (Analyst, Associate, VP or above). Time in the industry matters more than title.
• Bulge-bracket or elite-boutique experience preferred.
• Hands-on valuation and transaction modeling (DCF, LBO, comps) in M&A, ECM / DCM, leveraged finance or restructuring.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, economics, finance, accounting or a related field.
• Prior experience on a Mercor RL project is a plus.

Details

• Pay: $110/hour.
• You start with a short onboarding session and a paid skills assessment. Once you pass, you can claim your first task right away.
• Strong performers can move into reviewer and world lead roles.