Frontier AI Safety Evaluator & Alignment Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate 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 safety, factual accuracy, policy compliance, and providing structured feedback. You will review content on misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, violence, cyber, and

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.

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

Excellent written English

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Sociology, Public Policy, Law, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Mercor seeks experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate 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 safety, factual accuracy, policy compliance, and providing structured feedback. You will review content on misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, violence, cyber, and