Remote AI Safety Evaluation Specialist

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Practitioner to evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance. This remote contract role focuses on applying evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT, and collaborating with researchers to improve model alignment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in AI safety or related fields, a strong written English ability, and experience reviewing high-risk content. Remote work options are available for this engagement.

Qualifications

• 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

AI Safety

Policy evaluation

Analytical reasoning

Written English

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Practitioner to evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance. This remote contract role focuses on applying evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT, and collaborating with researchers to improve model alignment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in AI safety or related fields, a strong written English ability, and experience reviewing high-risk content. Remote work options are available for this engagement.