AI Safety Evaluation Specialist – Remote Contract

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

Job summary

Mercor seeks an AI Safety Practitioner for a remote contract position. You will evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance, reviewing content across sensitive domains and applying evaluation rubrics for RLHF, SFT, and benchmarking.

Strong English, critical thinking, and analytical skills are required. You will identify unsafe outputs, biases, and policy violations, providing structured feedback and collaborating with AI researchers and safety teams on

Qualifications

• 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.

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 evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor seeks an AI Safety Practitioner for a remote contract position. You will evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance, reviewing content across sensitive domains and applying evaluation rubrics for RLHF, SFT, and benchmarking.

Strong English, critical thinking, and analytical skills are required. You will identify unsafe outputs, biases, and policy violations, providing structured feedback and collaborating with AI researchers and safety teams on