Financial Services Fraud Investigation Expert

Role Overview

Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs on Project Atlas — an initiative to build realistic enterprise environments that frontier AI agents are trained and evaluated in. We're seeking experienced fraud-investigation and financial-crime professionals from Fortune 500 banks, major card issuers, and large fintech or insurance firms to recreate the digital workspaces they run every day and design the tasks that genuinely challenge state-of-the-art AI.

You'll bring your expertise in AML/BSA, fraud operations, investigations, or financial-crime compliance to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and case-management workflows of a major financial institution — and then author tasks grounded in the investigations you actually run today.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day — the case files, investigation write-ups, SAR / CTR drafts, typology memos, alert-triage notes, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work — with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Refinitiv World-Check / Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Splunk SIEM, Fiserv or FIS exports)
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents
• Collaborate with other fraud and financial-crime experts in your field to design the environment, shape task scope, and review each other's scenarios for realism and rigor
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for fraud-investigation agent benchmarks
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking — the work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems

Ideal Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time fraud / financial-crime experience at a Fortune 500 bank, large card issuer, fintech, or insurance firm
• Background in one or more areas such as:
  • BSA/AML compliance, sanctions screening (OFAC), and SAR/CTR filings
  • Fraud operations — application fraud, account-takeover, transaction fraud, first-party fraud
  • Financial-crime investigations, EDD, and high-risk-customer review
  • Insurance claims fraud (SIU) or merchant/acquirer fraud
  • Regulatory exam response (OCC, FinCEN, Fed, state DFS)
• Certifications a plus: CAMS, CFE, CFCS
• Day-to-day use of Refinitiv World-Check or Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Splunk SIEM or Microsoft Sentinel, and FIS / Fiserv / Jack Henry
• Strong analytical thinking and writing — able to translate investigations into structured task specs

Compensation Note

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$900 – $1,250 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves)
• Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate!
• Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.