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

mercor; Norway; Remote; NOK 790,000 - 922,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with AI research labs. This remote contract role focuses on evaluating AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance. You'll review sensitive content areas, apply evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT, and identify unsafe outputs.

Collaboration with researchers and safety teams is expected. A Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in AI safety or related fields are preferred; excellent written English and analytical skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in journalism, communications, psychology, public policy, law, or related fields.
• 5+ years of professional AI Safety, Trust & Safety, journalism, public policy, research, or security experience.
• Excellent written English, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning.
• Ability to evaluate nuanced, 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

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Policy-sensitive evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in related field

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: 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.