Customer Support & Success Domain Expert
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models. 1. Overview Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from…
- Field
- Business & operations
- Where
- United States
- Commitment
- full time
- Hours
- up to 40/week
- Asks for
- Master's
- Openings
- 7
- Employment
- W-2 employee of Cincinnatus LLC, per the listing
- Posted
- yesterday
How this pay compares
At $68/hr (the midpoint of $55 to $80), this role pays more than 51% of the 167 open business & operations roles with a listed pay range, the same as the median.
Among platforms with 10 or more priced business & operations roles, Mercor has the highest median ($78/hr across 20 roles) and Alignerr the lowest ($53/hr across 31).
Mercor roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 39 days (136 roles). Mercor posted this one yesterday.
Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.
What you would earn at this rate
Per week, before tax
$2,700
Per month, if the work is steady
$11,700
- Tax
- The listing describes a W-2 employee role, so the employer withholds US tax from each paycheck.
Assumes paid hours only; unpaid assessments, onboarding and gaps between projects lower the real figure. Full take-home calculator · Track what you actually earn
Open business & operations roles on each platform
The same kind of work, priced on every platform we track, with the best-paid open role on each.
| Platform | Open | Median | Best-paid open role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercorthis role | 21 | $78/hr | Payer & Market Access Expert — Gross-to-Net & Formulary Strategy$175-200/hr |
| OpenTrain AI | 83 | $75/hr | Enterprise Operations AI Evaluation Analyst$135/hr |
| micro1 | 32 | $61/hr | Brand & Creative Strategy Expert$150-350/hr |
| Alignerr | 31 | $53/hr | Frontier Data Lead – AI Client Delivery & Growth$85-120/hr |
| Handshake AI | 31 | up to $80/hr | Marketing and Sales ProfessionalUp to $120/hr |
“Up to” rows list only ceilings, so their median is a maximum, not comparable with the range midpoints above them.
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Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.
1. Overview
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking talented Customer Support, Customer Success and Technical Onboarding subject-matter experts (SMEs) to bring real operating experience and elevate the quality of our AI training data. This is a full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.
2. Key Responsibilities
- Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in customer support, customer success and onboarding workflows.
- Audit multi-step workflows such as ticket triage and escalation, churn and renewals, usage and adoption reporting, onboarding and installation, and billing and failed payments for realism and policy compliance.
- Design realistic support and success tasks that reflect real ticket data and CRM, helpdesk and billing constraints, and write accurate, well-structured solutions.
- Evaluate tasks and customer communications against rubrics and provide clear, written feedback.
- Validate and refine evaluation rubrics across the customer support and success workflow taxonomy.
- Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.
3. Core Qualifications
- Substantial professional experience in customer support, customer success or technical onboarding for business customers.
- Hands-on experience in at least one core track: ticket triage and technical escalation, churn and renewal management, or onboarding and implementation.
- Daily working experience with tools such as Intercom, HubSpot, Stripe and Metabase, or close equivalents such as Zendesk, Salesforce and Looker.
- Ability to critically judge customer communications for authenticity and policy compliance.
- Demonstrable career progression.
- Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain judgment calls clearly.
About Cincinnatus LLC:
Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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Full Mercor profile: watch-outs and the public record →Pay history
Mercor has listed this role at $55-80/hr since Nov 10, 2026 with no change.
Across Mercor's business & operations roles, the median listed pay was $65/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (19 roles) and is $78/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (20 roles).
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