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Mercor

AI Safety Practitioner

Location: RemoteContract type: ContractPosted: July 28, 2026

About the Role

We are seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate the safety, quality, and alignment of frontier AI models across complex, policy-sensitive, and ambiguous ("grey-area") topics. You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback.

What You'll Do

  • 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

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AI Safety, RLHF, SFT, Trust & Safety, or AI evaluation
  • Familiarity with safety policies, content moderation, or evaluation rubric development
  • Experience reviewing complex, high-risk, or ambiguous content

Why Join

  • Shape the safety and behaviour of frontier AI models used by millions worldwide
  • Work on challenging, real-world safety evaluations across nuanced and high-impact domains
  • Collaborate with leading AI researchers, engineers, and safety teams

Compensation & Logistics

  • Type: Independent Contractor
  • Compensation: Competitive, paid weekly via Stripe or Wise
  • Location: Remote
  • Application: Submit your resume or relevant professional background. Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief assessment or submit additional information. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.