What the work actually looks like

You install a specialized build of an AI assistant on your own Mac and use it the way a real person would — dictating a WhatsApp message to a cousin, drafting an email in Hindi, asking it to summarize a PDF, apply a spreadsheet formula, reformat a note, or generate an image. The point is naturalness: code-switched Hinglish, regional turns of phrase, half-finished sentences, background noise from an actual home. After each interaction you write down what you actually said (verbatim), produce a cleaned-up version, rate how the assistant handled it, and log the whole thing in a structured tracking sheet with the recording uploaded to a shared drive.

The transcription and logging is the bulk of the clock time. A two-minute voice task can take ten minutes to document properly — verbatim transcript, cleaned transcript, rating with justification, correct row in the sheet, correctly named file in the drive. Reviewers check whether your transcript matches your audio and whether your rating is defensible against the response you captured.

What the screen looks for

Mercor runs a roughly 25-minute AI-led conversational interview covering background, experience, and motivation. For this role the substance underneath is narrower than it sounds: are you genuinely native in Hindi rather than fluent-by-study; can you follow written English instructions without hand-holding; do you actually have the hardware; and will you do repetitive structured data entry carefully for four weeks. Expect follow-ups that push on specifics — which apps you use daily, how you'd describe a bad AI response in concrete terms rather than "it was wrong."

Logistics

  • Remote, largely async, self-scheduled within project deadlines
  • Fixed four-week duration with an immediate start
  • Hard hardware gate: Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3) on macOS Sequoia 15.0+ — no Intel Macs, no borrowed machines mid-project
  • Requires a quiet-enough environment to record usable audio
  • $15/hr is the observed rate for this listing, not a guaranteed or ongoing rate