Senior Legal Counsel for AI & GenAI Programs

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral reward program

Job summary

Mercor seeks a senior legal domain expert to join its GenAI team in the Bay Area. You will review legal knowledge work tasks, draft instruction specs, and build golden solutions that define what is considered correct in professional contexts.

You will help design benchmarks, translate tacit legal judgment into teachable criteria, and work closely with researchers to advance frontier AI in legal applications. This is a hands-on, on-site role requiring Bay Area residence.

Qualifications

• AI fluency in applying large language models to professional tasks.
• Clear ability to assess and critique complex legal outputs.
• Excellent written communication with precise feedback.

Responsibilities

• Data QA and reviews: Vet quality of legal knowledge work tasks and model outputs.
• Write high-quality instruction specs and golden solutions for legal problems.
• Define new legal tasks reflecting real-world practice.
• Design challenging legal tasks and evaluation sets with research team.

Skills

AI fluency

Written communication

Legal analysis

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Bar admission (US)

Job description

Mercor seeks a senior legal domain expert to join its GenAI team in the Bay Area. You will review legal knowledge work tasks, draft instruction specs, and build golden solutions that define what is considered correct in professional contexts.

You will help design benchmarks, translate tacit legal judgment into teachable criteria, and work closely with researchers to advance frontier AI in legal applications. This is a hands-on, on-site role requiring Bay Area residence.