Frontier AI Safety Evaluator

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate frontier AI model safety, quality, and alignment across complex, policy-sensitive topics.

You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback, collaborating with AI researchers and safety teams on ongoing evaluation initiatives. This role rewards rigorous attention to nuance and clear documentation of findings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in journalism, communications, psychology, sociology, public policy, law, biology, chemistry, computer science, or 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.

Skills

AI safety

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Written English

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in related discipline

Tools

RLHF

SFT

AI evaluation

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate frontier AI model safety, quality, and alignment across complex, policy-sensitive topics.

You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback, collaborating with AI researchers and safety teams on ongoing evaluation initiatives. This role rewards rigorous attention to nuance and clear documentation of findings.