AI Safety Practitioner
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AI Safety Practitioner evaluating frontier AI models for Mercor’s AI lab partnerships. Applying safety policies and structured feedback across high-risk, ambiguous content domains.
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
- Work on projects training and enhancing frontier AI systems
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
- Strong 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 unable to rely on H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship; Mercor cannot support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Work on your own schedule
- Payments weekly via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Collaborate with leading AI researchers, engineers, and safety teams
- Help shape the next generation of AI systems
- Competitive pay
- Up to $400 for each successful referral, with no limit on referrals
- Reasonable accommodations available upon request
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