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

Mercor; Dublin; Remote; EUR 71,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Practitioner for a remote contract role. You will evaluate AI-generated content for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance across sensitive domains, contributing to model alignment and safety benchmarking.

The role emphasizes structured feedback, collaboration with researchers, and refining rubrics for RLHF and SFT to uphold high safety standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 5+ years 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.

Skills

AI Safety

Policy analysis

Critical thinking

English writing

Review & evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field

Tools

RLHF

SFT

AI evaluation

Content moderation

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 Information

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.

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