Government & Public Policy Expert

DESCRIPTION

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to build a network of government, public policy, and regulatory affairs experts who help train and evaluate frontier AI systems on real-world public-sector work. As a Government & Public Policy Expert, you will apply your professional judgment to author, review, and stress-test tasks spanning the full policy and administrative lifecycle — policy analysis and memo drafting, regulatory drafting and compliance review, procurement and contracting, program and grants management, budget and appropriations, and legislative affairs. Your expertise directly shapes how advanced AI models reason about the decisions that agencies, legislatures, and public institutions face every day. Key Responsibilities Design realistic public-sector scenarios and tasks drawn from your hands-on experience: policy options analysis, decision memos, briefing papers, and issue backgrounders for senior officials. Build and review regulatory work products — proposed and final rule text, preambles and regulatory impact discussion, public-comment analysis, guidance documents, and compliance determinations against controlling statute and regulation. Create procurement and contracting exercises grounded in real practice: requirements and statements of work, RFP/solicitation development, FAR and agency-supplement analysis, evaluation criteria, source-selection rationale, and contract administration issues. Develop program and grants management tasks covering notices of funding opportunity, application review and scoring, subrecipient monitoring, performance measurement, and reporting obligations. Author budget and appropriations tasks — budget justifications, spend plans, reprogramming and apportionment questions, cost estimates, and fiscal-law issues such as purpose, time, and amount. Draft legislative affairs materials, including bill analysis, fiscal notes, amendment tracking, testimony preparation, and constituent or stakeholder correspondence. Review and grade AI-generated outputs for accuracy, completeness, procedural soundness, and fidelity to the governing authority; identify subtle errors, edge cases, and failure modes in model reasoning. Provide clear, structured written rationale explaining why a given answer is correct, incomplete, or wrong, and collaborate with the team to refine evaluation rubrics and raise the quality bar for this domain. Ideal

REQUIREMENTS

• ▸3+ years of professional experience in government, public policy, or regulatory affairs.
• ▸Excellent written communication, with the ability to explain nuanced reasoning clearly and concisely for a decision-maker audience.
• ▸Sharp attention to detail, citation discipline, and comfort evaluating the quality of others' work.
• ▸A relevant credential or degree (MPP, MPA, JD, CFCM/CPCM, PMP, or comparable) is preferred but not required — demonstrated hands-on experience matters more.
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