AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $70/hr

mercor; España; Remote; EUR 74,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite AI talent with leading labs and seeks an AI Safety Practitioner for a remote, contract position. You will evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance to support model alignment.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in AI safety or related fields, strong English writing, and the ability to assess nuanced, high-risk content such as misinformation and cyber topics. This is a remote contract role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, Trust & Safety, journalism, public policy, scientific research, security, or related field.
• Excellent written English, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning skills.
• Ability to consistently evaluate nuanced and policy-sensitive scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, policy compliance, and overall quality.
• Review content involving misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, violence, cyber, biosecurity, and other sensitive domains.
• Apply and refine evaluation rubrics for RLHF, SFT, and AI safety benchmarking.
• Identify unsafe outputs, hallucinations, reasoning failures, and policy violations.
• Provide structured feedback to improve model alignment and safety performance.
• Collaborate with AI researchers and safety teams on ongoing evaluation initiatives.

Skills

AI Safety

Trust & Safety

Content Evaluation

Policy Analysis

Critical Thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

RLHF

SFT

Job description

About the job

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: AI Safety Practitioner Type: Contract Compensation: $60–$70/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, policy compliance, and overall quality.
• Review content involving misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, violence, cyber, biosecurity, and other sensitive domains.
• Apply and refine evaluation rubrics for RLHF , SFT , and AI safety benchmarking .
• Identify unsafe outputs, hallucinations, reasoning failures, and policy violations.
• Provide structured feedback to improve model alignment and safety performance.
• Collaborate with AI researchers and safety teams on ongoing evaluation initiatives.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Sociology, Public Policy, Law, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety , Trust & Safety, journalism, public policy, scientific research, security, or a related field.
• Excellent written English , critical thinking, and analytical reasoning skills.
• Ability to consistently evaluate nuanced and policy-sensitive scenarios.

Preferred

• Experience with AI Safety , RLHF , SFT , Trust & Safety, or AI evaluation.
• Familiarity with safety policies, content moderation, or evaluation rubric development.
• Experience reviewing complex, high-risk, or ambiguous content.