Senior AI Safety Evaluator — Policy & Risk

Mercor; Dublin; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate the safety, quality, and alignment of frontier AI models across policy-sensitive and ambiguous topics. You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback.

You will review content on misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, violence, cyber, biosecurity, and other sensitive domains; apply and refine evaluation rubrics for RLHF, SFT, and

Qualifications

• 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 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

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Written English

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a related discipline

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate the safety, quality, and alignment of frontier AI models across policy-sensitive and ambiguous topics. You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback.

You will review content on misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, violence, cyber, biosecurity, and other sensitive domains; apply and refine evaluation rubrics for RLHF, SFT, and