AI Safety Specialist - Evaluation Expert

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Practitioner on a contract basis to join a remote team delivering rigorous evaluations of AI outputs across safety, accuracy, and policy alignment. You will assess responses for misinformation, sensitive content, and policy violations, and provide structured feedback to help researchers improve model safety benchmarks in RLHF and SFT contexts.

Candidates should have strong English writing, analytical reasoning, and the ability to judge nuanced scenarios in diverse

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, Trust & Safety, journalism, public policy, 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 quality.
• Review content involving misinformation, politics, self-harm, violence, 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 evaluation initiatives.

Skills

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Written English

Education

Bachelor’s degree

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.