AI Safety Practitioner - Expert Evaluator

Mercor; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Obsidian is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate the safety, quality, and alignment of frontier AI models across policy-sensitive topics. You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback.

Responsibilities include evaluating responses for safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance; reviewing high-risk content; and collaborating with AI researchers on ongoing evaluation initiatives.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or higher in journalism, communications, psychology, public policy, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI safety, trust & safety, policy, or research.
• Excellent written English and strong analytical reasoning.
• Ability to evaluate nuanced, policy-sensitive scenarios.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Written English

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Policy sensitivity

Quality evaluation

Educación

Bachelor's degree or higher

Descripción del empleo

We are seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate the safety, quality, and alignment of frontier AI models across complex, policy-sensitive, and ambiguous ("grey-area") topics. You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback.

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.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Why Join?

• Shape the safety and behaviour of frontier AI models used by millions worldwide.

• Work on challenging, real-world safety evaluations across nuanced and high-impact domains.

• Collaborate with leading AI researchers, engineers, and safety teams.