Government Affairs Specialist — Remote

Job overview

The Government Affairs Specialist role is remote; the posting does not specify a geographic restriction for remote work. Compensation is $50–$60 per hour. Mercor connects creative and technical talent with AI research labs. The specialist develops public-sector scenarios and work products and reviews AI-generated outputs for accuracy and completeness. This work applies government, policy, and regulatory expertise to improve model reasoning and evaluation quality across tasks matched to the expert’s background.

What you'll do

• Design public-sector scenarios and tasks involving policy analysis, decision memos, and briefing papers
• build and review regulatory work products
• create procurement and contracting exercises
• develop program and grants management tasks
• author budget and appropriations tasks
• draft legislative affairs materials
• review AI-generated outputs for accuracy and completeness
• provide structured feedback to improve evaluation rubrics.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

government affairs

public policy

remote

mercor

$50–$60/hour

policy analysis

regulatory affairs

procurement

grants management

budget and appropriations

legislative affairs

ai output review

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Contract opportunity matching selected experts to tasks aligned with their public-sector expertise.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Sector: 54.