Remote AI Safety Evaluator (Contract) — Expert Alignment & Risk

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

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Practitioner to remotely evaluate and improve the safety and quality of AI-generated responses. You will review content across high-risk domains, apply evaluation rubrics, and provide actionable feedback for model alignment.

Ideal candidates hold a bachelor’s degree with 5+ years in AI safety or related fields, and demonstrate strong written English, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning.

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

Analytical reasoning

Critical thinking

Policy interpretation

Education

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

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Practitioner to remotely evaluate and improve the safety and quality of AI-generated responses. You will review content across high-risk domains, apply evaluation rubrics, and provide actionable feedback for model alignment.

Ideal candidates hold a bachelor’s degree with 5+ years in AI safety or related fields, and demonstrate strong written English, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning.