Remote AI Safety Evaluator & Policy Expert

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Practitioner to remotely evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance. The role involves reviewing content across sensitive domains and refining evaluation rubrics used in RLHF and SFT benchmarks.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in journalism, public policy, or related fields, plus 5+ years of AI safety or related experience and excellent written English.

Qualifications

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

Excellent written English

Critical thinking

Analytical reasoning

Policy evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Practitioner to remotely evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance. The role involves reviewing content across sensitive domains and refining evaluation rubrics used in RLHF and SFT benchmarks.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in journalism, public policy, or related fields, plus 5+ years of AI safety or related experience and excellent written English.