**Role Overview**
Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs on **Project Atlas** — an initiative to build realistic enterprise environments that frontier AI agents are trained and evaluated in. We're seeking experienced fraud-investigation and financial-crime professionals from **Fortune 500 banks, major card issuers, and large fintech or insurance firms** to recreate the digital workspaces they run every day and design the tasks that genuinely challenge state-of-the-art AI.
You'll bring your expertise in AML/BSA, fraud operations, investigations, or financial-crime compliance to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and case-management workflows of a major financial institution — and then author tasks grounded in the investigations you actually run today.
• *Key Responsibilities**
- Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day — the case files, investigation write-ups, SAR / CTR drafts, typology memos, alert-triage notes, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work — with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Refinitiv World-Check / Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Splunk SIEM, Fiserv or FIS exports)
- Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents
- Collaborate with other fraud and financial-crime experts in your field to design the environment, shape task scope, and review each other's scenarios for realism and rigor
- Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for fraud-investigation agent benchmarks
- Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking — the work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems
• *Ideal Qualifications**
- 3+ years of full-time fraud / financial-crime experience at a **Fortune 500 bank, large card issuer, fintech, or insurance firm**
- Background in one or more areas such as:
- BSA/AML compliance, sanctions screening (OFAC), and SAR/CTR filings
- Fraud operations — application fraud, account-takeover, transaction fraud, first-party fraud
- Financial-crime investigations, EDD, and high-risk-customer review
- Insurance claims fraud (SIU) or merchant/acquirer fraud
- Regulatory exam response (OCC, FinCEN, Fed, state DFS)
- Certifications a plus: CAMS, CFE, CFCS
- Day-to-day use of Refinitiv World-Check or Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Splunk SIEM or Microsoft Sentinel, and FIS / Fiserv / Jack Henry
- Strong analytical thinking and writing — able to translate investigations into structured task specs
• *Compensation Note**
- **Task Completion Pay:** Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,150 – $1,450 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves)
- **Performance Bonus:** Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate!
- **Hourly Opportunity:** Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.