AI Safety Specialist - Evaluation Expert

mercor; Finland; A distancia; EUR 74.000 - 86.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This remote contract role as an AI Safety Practitioner focuses on evaluating AI outputs for safety, bias, and policy compliance, and providing actionable feedback to improve alignment.

You will review high-risk content, refine evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT, and collaborate with AI researchers to advance safety benchmarking in a distributed team.

Formación

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

Responsabilidades

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, accuracy, policy compliance, and 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.

Conocimientos

AI Safety

Content Moderation

RLHF

SFT

Trust & Safety

Analytical Reasoning

Critical Thinking

Research Collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's degree or higher in related field

Herramientas

Evaluation rubrics

RLHF rubrics

SFT evaluation tools

Descripción del empleo

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.