AI Safety Specialist - Evaluation Expert

mercor; Polska; Remote; PLN 323,000 - 377,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. A remote, contract position as AI Safety Practitioner involves evaluating AI outputs for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance.

You will review high-risk content and work with researchers to improve model alignment. Ideal candidates have a strong background in AI safety, policy, or related fields and excellent written English.

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

AI Safety

Policy evaluation

Critical thinking

Written English

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a related discipline

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.