Job Description
What you'll do
Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs to advance frontier agent evaluations in corporate finance. As a Corporate Development Expert, you'll build long-horizon transaction and strategy tasks that mirror the work you already do, each paired with a deterministic rubric that grades agent performance against verifiable ground truth. Tasks need to have checkable answers; no open-ended essays, no subjective judgment calls.
Expect to build scenarios across:
- M&A analysis: comps tables with defined peer sets and metrics, DCFs where assumptions map to a target valuation range, LBO and merger models with specified returns
- Diligence: synergy build-ups tied to source data, CIM extractions against a ground-truth fact set
- Capital allocation: scenarios with specified IRRs, NPVs, and payback outputs
These scenarios will be challenging and take long sessions of focus.
Who we're looking for
- BS or MS in Finance, Economics, or related; 3+ years in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or strategic finance
- Expertise in one or more of the following: LBO/merger modeling, DCF valuation, comps and precedent analysis, synergy analysis, IC memo drafting
- Comfortable reading and producing transaction artifacts: models, teasers, CIMs, IC/board memos
- Clear written communication; can articulate reasoning step by step and encode it into deterministic rubrics
- Located in the United States or Canada
Compensation
$100–$135/hr depending on domain depth and prior experience. Strong contributors are promoted based on task quality and throughput.
About Mercor
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