Clinical Social Work Specialist

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 D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Social Work Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $40–$55/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include case notes, assessments, service plans, referrals, progress reports, grant/outcome reports, program narratives, and email threads. Represent platforms like Apricot (Bonterra), Salesforce Nonprofit, DocuSign, and SharePoint.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other social-work experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for social-services agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of full-time experience at a large hospital system, county DHS/DCF, or major nonprofit/behavioral-health organization.
• Day-to-day use of Salesforce Nonprofit, Apricot (Bonterra), DocuSign, and SharePoint/Box.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing. Able to translate social-work practice into structured task specs.
  
  
  

Preferred

• LCSW/LMSW/equivalent state licensure strongly preferred.
• Background in clinical/medical social work, child/adult protective services, school social work, juvenile-justice social work, macro social work, or substance-use/mental-health program operations.
  
  
  

Compensation & Legal

• This project will transition from an effective hourly rate to a model based on throughput of quality work.
  
  
  

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
  
  
  

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.