Regulatory Attorney - Fully Remote | Upto $100/hr

mercor; Italia; Remote; EUR 111,000 - 123,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Regulatory Law Expert on a contract basis. The role centers on designing regulatory compliance programs, guiding agency investigations, and handling enforcement actions, with a remote work arrangement.

You will own regulatory matters, draft reference memoranda and filings, and develop rubrics to distinguish authentic regulatory judgment. Requires 5+ years as a regulatory attorney and a JD with bar admission, plus fluency with regulatory tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a regulatory attorney or compliance counsel.
• Direct ownership of regulatory compliance programs and enforcement matters.
• Fluency in regulatory tooling and understanding administrative process.
• JD with bar admission or international equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Construct regulatory compliance program design scenarios.
• Build tasks across financial services, healthcare, FDA, antitrust, data privacy, cybersecurity, and environmental regulation.
• Develop scenarios involving regulatory tools and agency filing systems.
• Apply regulatory law methodologies across US and international frameworks.
• Produce reference memoranda, regulatory filings, and enforcement response documents.
• Author rubrics to distinguish authentic regulatory judgment from generic law school or bar exam‑level recall.

Skills

Regulatory expertise

Compliance program ownership

Regulatory tooling

Legal writing

Education

JD with bar admission

Tools

Regulatory tracking platforms

Compliance management systems

Agency filing systems

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: Regulatory Law Expert | Type: Contract | Compensation: $90–$100/hour | Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Construct scenarios spanning regulatory compliance program design, agency investigations, and enforcement actions.
• Build tasks across financial services regulation , healthcare and FDA regulation , antitrust and competition law , data privacy and cybersecurity regulation , and environmental and energy regulation .
• Develop scenarios involving tools such as regulatory tracking platforms, compliance management systems, and agency filing systems used across regulated industries.
• Apply regulatory law methodologies to the standards track a world targets (US: Administrative Procedure Act , agency-specific statutes and regulations; International: EU regulations and directives, UK regulatory frameworks ), and produce reference compliance memoranda, regulatory filings, and enforcement response documents.
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic regulatory judgment from generic law school or bar exam‑level recall.

Qualifications Must‑Have

• 5+ years working as a regulatory attorney or compliance counsel at a major law firm, regulated company, or government agency.
• Direct ownership of regulatory compliance programs, agency interactions, or enforcement matters.
• Fluency in regulatory tooling, plus understanding of how administrative process and agency rulemaking actually work.
• A recognized professional credential is strongly preferred ( JD with bar admission , or an international equivalent).

Preferred

• Prior rubric, training, or compliance documentation authorship is a plus.