Job Description
Company: Obsidian
Role Overview
Mercor is collaborating with leading AI labs to engage highly accomplished creative writers—playwrights, novelists, journalists, short story authors, essayists, and social media managers—for advanced AI training projects. Contributors will apply their literary expertise to improve AI systems’ ability to generate nuanced, high-quality narrative content. This work emphasizes strong storytelling, stylistic precision, and editorial judgment informed by published and awarded experience. This is a project-based opportunity with flexible participation.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and refine AI-generated content across plays, novels, short stories, articles, long form essays, tweets, podcasts, lectures, and late night
- Evaluate outputs for literary quality, structure, tone, and thematic depth
- Provide detailed editorial feedback to improve coherence and originality
Ideal Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in creative writing, including playwriting, journalism, essays, novel writing, short fiction, and social media
- For social media applicants, demonstrable and significant experience in running social media campaigns across platforms (particularly X/Twitter) is required
- A substantial body of published work (e.g., novels, staged plays, or multiple short stories in recognized outlets)
- Work featured in prestigious literary publications, journals, anthologies, or professional productions
- Recipient of recognized literary awards, fellowships, or honors across any of the three disciplines
- Exceptional command of narrative craft, including structure, voice, dialogue, and character development across formats
- Strong ability to critique and refine written work with attention to style, coherence, and thematic depth
About Mercor
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