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9 active, referral-verified opportunities.

Finance / Remote

FP&A Expert

About the work We're building a high-quality library of corporate FP&A work products. You'll complete self-contained planning exercises from mock files (actuals, driver schedules, department budgets) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric. — What you'll do • Build bottoms-up annual budgets and multi-year long-range plans with consolidation and approval paths. • Produce rolling reforecasts of P&L, cash flow and KPIs reflecting actuals and updated drivers. • Build headcount and capital expenditure plans with hiring pacing, project approvals, payback and prioritization. • Produce monthly management reporting packs with variance commentary, and product, customer or segment profitability analysis with cost allocation methodology. • Forecast revenue from bookings, pipeline coverage and demand signals, and document model drivers and assumptions. — You're a fit if you have • 4+ years in FP&A at an operating company, owning a plan or a reforecast cycle. • Advanced Excel modeling and the judgment to explain a variance, not just calculate it. — Nice to have • Finance business partnering or commercial finance experience; planning systems such as Anaplan, Adaptive or Pigment. — Assessment A rolling reforecast from mock actuals and drivers; a management reporting pack with variance commentary; a headcount and capital expenditure plan. — Note: we're looking for planning and forecasting ownership, not month-end close or controllership.

$2,000 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified

Finance / Remote

Corporate Development Expert

About the work We're building a high-quality library of in-house corporate development work products. You'll complete self-contained M&A exercises from mock files (CIMs, diligence reports, term sheets, board decks) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric. — What you'll do • Build valuation and merger models: three-statement, DCF, trading and transaction comps, accretion-dilution, cap table and equity waterfall. • Draft and compare transaction terms: IOIs, LOIs, term sheets, bid comparisons, deal structure and consideration economics. • Produce process and board materials: management presentations, data packs, buyer universes, board and committee decks, closing mechanics and funds flow. • Run screening, diligence and integration work: inbound deal screens, diligence request lists, findings synthesis, synergy models, carve-out analysis, 100-day plans. — You're a fit if you have • 4+ years in an in-house corporate development or M&A role at an operating company. • Hands-on ownership of live transactions end to end, not support work. — Nice to have • Investment banking or private equity background before moving in-house; Big 4 transaction advisory or financial due diligence. — Assessment A merger model from a mock target file; a term sheet comparison; a board-ready recommendation memo. — Note: we're looking for in-house operators, not sell-side or advisory practitioners.

$2,000 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified

Finance / Remote

Strategic Finance Expert

About the work We're building a high-quality library of strategic finance work products. You'll complete self-contained exercises from mock files (market data, cost baselines, pricing schedules) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric. — What you'll do • Build business cases and investment appraisals with NPV, IRR and payback for a project, product, or make-versus-buy decision. • Produce capital allocation determinations ranking investments against hurdle rates with portfolio review. • Build scenario and sensitivity analyses of the corporate plan across demand, pricing and cost. • Analyze pricing and discount economics supporting price setting and deal desk approvals with margin impact. • Produce market sizing and competitive landscape analysis, cohort and unit economics, and cost baseline and savings analysis for a cost reduction program. — You're a fit if you have • 4+ years in strategic finance, corporate strategy, or corporate planning inside an operating company. • Ownership of a capital or pricing decision that went to a leadership forum. — Nice to have • Management consulting or Big 4 strategy background now in an operator seat; growth equity background now in-house; deal desk or pricing strategy experience. — Assessment A business case with NPV and IRR from mock project files; a pricing and margin recommendation; a capital allocation ranking. — Note: at some companies this seat reads as Corporate Planning or Business Analysis. Fund-side strategy roles are out of scope.

$2,000 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified

Finance / Remote

Corporate Treasury Expert

About the work We're building a high-quality library of corporate treasury work products. You'll complete self-contained treasury exercises from mock files (bank statements, exposure schedules, credit agreements) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric. — What you'll do • Build rolling 13-week direct cash forecasts with receipts, disbursements and variance explanation. • Identify and net FX exposures, analyze fixed and floating rate risk, and design hedges against a corporate policy. • Produce hedge designation documentation with periodic effectiveness testing. • Analyze working capital performance (DSO/DPO/DIO), bank fees against services, trapped cash and repatriation options, and forecast leverage and covenant headroom. • Draft or refresh treasury policy covering liquidity, FX, counterparties and investment. — You're a fit if you have • 4+ years in a corporate treasury role at an operating company. • Hands-on with cash forecasting, hedging, or bank and liquidity management. — Nice to have • CTP; ACT, AMCT or MCT; treasury management systems. — Assessment A 13-week cash forecast from mock bank and receivables files; an FX exposure netting and hedge recommendation; a covenant headroom forecast. — Note: this is corporate treasury. Bank asset-liability management, funds transfer pricing and regulatory liquidity reporting are out of scope.

$2,000 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified

Finance / Remote

Corporate Tax Expert

About the work We're building a high-quality library of corporate tax work products. You'll complete self-contained tax exercises from mock files (trial balances, intercompany agreements, deal documents) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric. — What you'll do • Build quarterly and annual income tax provisions under ASC 740 with current and deferred calculations and rate reconciliation. • Prepare returns and supporting workpapers across federal, state apportionment and international regimes, and forecast cash taxes by jurisdiction. • Produce technical computations and studies: GILTI, FDII, BEAT, Pillar Two, 163(j) limitation, and net operating loss and attribute analysis. • Build transfer pricing master file and local file documentation with intercompany agreement and policy review. • Work transaction tax: diligence of exposures and attributes, structuring memos, and documented tax positions including FIN 48 reserves. — You're a fit if you have • 4+ years in corporate income tax, in-house or Big 4. • Depth in at least one of: provision and compliance, international and transfer pricing, or M&A tax. — Nice to have • CPA; JD or LLM in Taxation; EA; CTA. Tax equity and HLBV modeling experience. — Assessment An ASC 740 provision from a mock trial balance; a transfer pricing benchmarking memo; a deal tax structuring recommendation. — Note: this is corporate income tax. Individual return preparation, payroll tax, and sales-tax-only backgrounds are out of scope.

$2,000 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified

Finance / Remote

Investor Relations Expert

About the work We're building a high-quality library of public-company investor relations work products. You'll complete self-contained IR exercises from mock files (results packs, shareholder registers, analyst models) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric. — What you'll do • Draft earnings releases, prepared remarks and Q&A briefings for a quarterly results call. • Produce guidance-setting and revision recommendations with scenario support. • Build investor day and IR presentation materials, equity story and positioning decks, AGM materials, and deal announcement packages. • Analyze the shareholder register and ownership base, assess activist vulnerability, and draft dividend and capital return recommendations. — You're a fit if you have • 4+ years in an in-house investor relations role at a public company. • Direct ownership of an earnings cycle: release, script, Q&A, analyst engagement. — Nice to have • IRC charter (NIRI); sell-side equity research before moving in-house; investor relations agency experience. — Assessment An earnings release and prepared remarks from a mock results pack; a guidance revision recommendation; an activist vulnerability assessment. — Note: this is public-company investor relations. Investor relations at a private equity or venture fund is LP fundraising and is a different role.

$2,000 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified

Code / Remote

Agent Engineer

We are looking for engineers who build and operate LLM agents in production, and who have real visibility into how agents are actually used inside a company. — You have probably: • Shipped an agent that real users depended on, and been on the hook when it broke. • Figured out how to tell whether an agent got better or worse after a change. • Run agents that outlive a single request: scheduled jobs, long-running work, cloud sandboxes. • Watched your org build an internal assistant, and seen who adopted it and who quietly did not. — We are especially interested in the layers most people do not talk about: internal monoagents wired into company data, shared company memory, reusable skills and playbooks, the tool and MCP surfaces agents call, and how anyone sees what agents did and what they cost. — Applying starts with a short conversational AI interview. No coding, no take-home. We want to hear how you actually think about agent reliability, evaluation, and adoption, and the tradeoffs you have made in real systems. Bring war stories. The messier and more specific, the better. — If that screen stands out, we will invite you to a live 30 minute conversation with our team. We pay $100 to $500 for that conversation, paid on completion of the call, with the amount depending on depth of experience. — If that sounds like you, apply and complete the screen. We review every submission.

$100 - $500 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified

Code / Remote

CUDA Engineering Expert

1. Role Overview — Mercor is seeking GPU kernel optimization experts to contribute to a project with a leading AI lab. This opportunity is designed for freelancers with strong C++ skills, practical GPU programming experience, and the ability to improve kernel performance using profiler-guided analysis. You’ll help evaluate, optimize, and reason about GPU kernels across modern hardware environments. This is a contract-based opportunity for specialists who enjoy squeezing performance out of modern GPU architectures. — 2. Key Responsibilities • Analyze and optimize GPU kernels for performance, efficiency, and hardware utilization • Use profiler metrics such as L2 cache hit rate, L2 throughput, occupancy, and related signals to guide kernel improvements • Review GPU kernel implementations and identify bottlenecks without requiring extensive background in the underlying algorithms • Write, modify, and reason about C++17, Python, and GPU programming code • Apply CUDA, HIP, shader programming, or related kernel programming expertise to improve performance outcomes • Document optimization decisions clearly, including when specific profiler metrics are or are not useful — 3. Ideal Qualifications • Available to work at least 20 hrs/wk • Fluent in core C++ features through C++17 • Working knowledge of Python and Git • Fluent in at least one GPU programming model, such as CUDA, HIP, Slang, HLSL, GLSL, or related kernel programming • At least 1 year of professional or graduate-level research experience working with GPUs • Strong understanding of GPU profiler performance metrics and how to use them to optimize kernels • Ability to optimize GPU kernels without needing deep prior context on every algorithm • Experience with CUDA, HIP, CUDA C++ Core Libraries, inline PTX assembly, or tensor core-level optimization is a plus • Experience optimizing kernels for NVIDIA Blackwell hardware is a plus • Familiarity with NSight Compute is a plus • Prior experience with GPU hardware organizations such as NVIDIA, AMD, or Qualcomm is a plus • Open-source contributions related to GPU kernel optimization are a plus — 4. Application Process • Submit your resume or relevant technical background to get started • Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or submit additional information

$500 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified

Code / Remote

Software Engineer — Agentic Search Systems

We're looking for engineers who have shipped production search systems (especially agentic ones now that we're in the era of LLMs and agents) and are thinking hard about the requirements and optimizations of those systems. — You've probably: • Owned relevance or retrieval on a system real users depended on • Decided how to quantify impact and improvements with these systems. • Built out systems related to agentic search. • Scaled data infrastructure to power modern search systems. — This is a 25-minute conversational interview. No coding, no take-home. We want to hear how you actually think about search quality, evaluation, and the tradeoffs you've made in real systems. Bring war stories — the messier and more specific, the better. — If your interview stands out, we'll follow up with a paid 30-minute live conversation with our team — $200 for your time, paid on completion of the call. — If that sounds like you, apply and complete the interview. We review every submission.

$80 - $150 / per-taskOpen / Referral verified