Frontier AI Safety Specialist & Evaluation Expert

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate frontier AI models for safety, alignment, and policy compliance across sensitive topics. You will assess outputs, apply safety policies, and provide structured feedback to improve model behavior.

Responsibilities include evaluating responses for safety and accuracy, reviewing content on misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, and other high-risk domains, and collaborating with researchers to refine evaluation rubrics and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Sociology, Public Policy, Law, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science or related discipline.
• 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

Excellent written English

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Policy-sensitive evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Sociology, Public Policy, Law, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate frontier AI models for safety, alignment, and policy compliance across sensitive topics. You will assess outputs, apply safety policies, and provide structured feedback to improve model behavior.

Responsibilities include evaluating responses for safety and accuracy, reviewing content on misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, and other high-risk domains, and collaborating with researchers to refine evaluation rubrics and