AI Safety Evaluator: Frontiers & Policy Alignment

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate frontier AI models for safety, alignment, and policy compliance across nuanced topics. You will assess AI-generated responses for quality, identify unsafe outputs, and apply robust evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT.

The role involves detailed feedback and collaboration with researchers and safety engineers to push forward safe AI behavior. This is a hands-on, impactful position in a dynamic environment, designed for serious

Qualifications

• Requires at least a Bachelor's degree or higher in a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, Trust & Safety, journalism, public policy, or related field.
• Excellent written English, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning.
• Ability to 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

RLHF

SFT

Content moderation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate frontier AI models for safety, alignment, and policy compliance across nuanced topics. You will assess AI-generated responses for quality, identify unsafe outputs, and apply robust evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT.

The role involves detailed feedback and collaboration with researchers and safety engineers to push forward safe AI behavior. This is a hands-on, impactful position in a dynamic environment, designed for serious