AI Safety Practitioner

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AI Safety Practitioner evaluating frontier AI models for Mercor, which partners with AI labs and enterprises to train advanced systems. Assessing sensitive content, applying safety rubrics, and providing structured alignment feedback.

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

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
  • Experience with AI Safety, RLHF, SFT, Trust & Safety, or AI evaluation preferred
  • Familiarity with safety policies, content moderation, or evaluation rubric development preferred
  • Experience reviewing complex, high-risk, or ambiguous content preferred
  • Must be eligible to work in one of the listed location-requirement countries
  • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits:

  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
  • Competitive pay
  • Collaboration with leading AI researchers, engineers, and safety teams
  • Opportunity to shape the safety and behaviour of frontier AI models
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral bonus of up to $400 for each successful referral
  • No limit on the number of referrals