What the work actually is

This listing is an intake, not a project. Mercor is preparing a run of compliance and financial-crime engagements — AML/BSA, KYC and CDD, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, securities and wealth compliance, conduct and communications surveillance, regulatory reporting, and testing and assurance — and wants the scope built from practitioner description rather than public sources. You spend about fifteen minutes writing detailed answers about your seat: how your week is actually split, what systems you sit in (Actimize, Verafin, Fenergo, WorldCheck, Nasdaq/Behavox, internal case managers), where the decision points sit, and how insiders cut the field differently from the way the org chart or the textbook does.

The most weighted section asks where AI already fails on your work. Generic scepticism reads poorly here. What reads well is a specific failure: a name-screening model that cannot resolve transliteration variants against a sanctions list, a monitoring scenario that fires on structuring patterns that a remittance-corridor customer explains entirely, an LLM that writes a SAR narrative with confident but unsupported intent language. The "invisible work" prompt is aimed at the same thing — escalation etiquette, what a regulator actually reads in an exam, how much of an alert disposition is documentation defensibility rather than analysis.

What the screen looks for

  • Real seat detail: which line of defence, which products, which regulators, which typologies you actually see
  • Concrete casework examples, anonymised — volumes, alert rates, false-positive ratios, turnaround expectations
  • Ability to articulate judgment calls, not just procedure: why you cleared something a rule flagged, and what documentation made that defensible
  • Willingness to write at length; polish is explicitly not the bar, specificity is

Credentials — CAMS, CGSS, CFCS, CFE, CRCM, an ICA diploma, FINRA registrations — are preferred but the listing states plainly that deep domain experience without a certificate is equally welcome.

Logistics and pay

Fully remote and asynchronous. The intake itself is a single written form, roughly fifteen minutes, with no interview scheduling. This posting carries an $80/hr reference band; Mercor states typical compliance engagement rates on the platform have run $90–$110/hr and scale with seniority. Those are observed figures, not a guarantee — completing the intake does not itself constitute an offer. Downstream engagements, when they open, are usually part-time, hours-flexible, and structured as rubric-based review or prompt-and-response authoring.