Frontier AI Safety Evaluator — Risk & Alignment Expert

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking 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.

Responsibilities include evaluating safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance across sensitive domains, applying and refining evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT, and collaborating with researchers to advance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI safety or related field.
• Strong written English and analytical reasoning.
• Ability to evaluate nuanced and policy-sensitive scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, policy compliance, and 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

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Excellent written English

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor is seeking 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.

Responsibilities include evaluating safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance across sensitive domains, applying and refining evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT, and collaborating with researchers to advance