AI Safety Evaluator & Model Alignment Specialist (Remote)

mercor

United States

Remote

USD 83,000 - 96,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with investors including Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

They are hiring a AI Safety Practitioner for a contract role with remote work options. The role focuses on evaluating AI-generated responses for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance across sensitive domains, and collaborating with researchers to improve

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher in a 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.