Job Overview

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Contractor

Pay

USD 75 – 100 (hourly)

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Job description

Salary:: USD 75 - 100 per hour
Location:: United States
Work arrangement:: Remote

Role Summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Financial Crime, AML & KYC Analyst
Type: Contract
Compensation: $75–$100/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 15 hours/week
Role Responsibilities

Adjudicate transaction-monitoring alerts using alert packets, KYC/CDD profiles , and transaction history. Document dispositions and draft SAR narratives as needed.

Review client onboarding and KYC packets for completeness. Identify and document cross-document discrepancies and produce remediation lists.

Resolve complex beneficial-ownership structures. Apply 10%/25% UBO thresholds effectively.

Adjudicate sanctions and adverse-media hits. Provide short rationales for true matches, false positives, or escalations.

Triage supervisory alert queues. Adjudicate card fraud and disputes. Assess flagged communications against trade records.

Requirements

3+ years hands-on in AML , financial-crime, KYC/CDD , sanctions screening, fraud/disputes, or transaction surveillance.
Working knowledge of FinCEN , FATF , OFAC frameworks, and SAR/CDD documentation standards .
Ability to write clear, defensible rationales.

Preferred

CAMS/ACAMS or CFE certification.
Experience in enhanced due diligence, entity unwinding, SQL , or transaction analytics.
Background in fintech or payments.

Assessment

A timed exercise involving a mock alert packet, disposition and SAR narrative , a KYC packet discrepancy and remediation list, and a batch of sanctions hits adjudication with rationale.

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Role:: KYC Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $100/hr
Job Type:: Contractor

Company profile

mercor

mercor.com

Mercor is an AI data company that connects domain experts across hundreds of professional fields with frontier AI labs and enterprises. Experts on its platform train and evaluate AI models, and its APEX benchmark family measures how AI performs on real-world professional work. Mercor Enterprise helps large companies capture how their most skilled people work and turn that expertise into AI agents. Founded in 2023, the company has offices in San Francisco, NYC and London.

Founded: 2023
Funding Stage: Series C