AI Safety Evaluator - Remote Contract

mercor; Italia; Remote; EUR 74,000 - 86,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. A flexible remote contract role focuses on evaluating AI-generated responses for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance. The AI Safety Practitioner collaborates with researchers to refine evaluation rubrics and identify unsafe outputs.

The role emphasizes critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and strong written English as essential skills for assessing complex, high-risk content across domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, Trust & Safety, journalism, public policy, or related field.
• Excellent written English, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning.
• 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

Written English

Analytical reasoning

Critical thinking

Policy evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. A flexible remote contract role focuses on evaluating AI-generated responses for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance. The AI Safety Practitioner collaborates with researchers to refine evaluation rubrics and identify unsafe outputs.

The role emphasizes critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and strong written English as essential skills for assessing complex, high-risk content across domains.