Frontier AI Safety Evaluator & Alignment Expert

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with AI researchers and safety teams on ongoing evaluation initiatives, applying safety policies and refining rubrics for RLHF, SFT, and benchmarking.

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.

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

Written English

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Policy evaluation

Nuanced scenario evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Journalism

Bachelor's degree or higher in Communications

Bachelor's degree or higher in Psychology

Bachelor's degree or higher in Sociology

Bachelor's degree or higher in Public Policy

Bachelor's degree or higher in Law

Bachelor's degree or higher in Biology

Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemistry

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science

Job description

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

You will collaborate with AI researchers and safety teams on ongoing evaluation initiatives, applying safety policies and refining rubrics for RLHF, SFT, and benchmarking.