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AI Safety Practitioner
MercorAI safety practitioner evaluating frontier models for Mercor, which partners with AI labs to train and enhance AI systems. Applying safety policies, identifying failures, and providing structured feedback on sensitive content.
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in AI Safety and evaluation, with a strong focus on critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and the ability to assess complex and sensitive content. Proficient in developing evaluation rubrics and providing structured feedback to enhance AI model alignment and safety.
Highest-signal resume keywords
AI SafetyTrust & SafetyEvaluation Rubric DevelopmentCritical ThinkingAnalytical Reasoning
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Hard Skills
AI EvaluationContent ModerationPolicy ComplianceFactual Accuracy AssessmentMisinformation ReviewSafety BenchmarkingRLHFSFTQuality EvaluationRisk Assessment
Soft Skills
Excellent Written EnglishNuanced EvaluationIndependent Work
Industry Keywords
JournalismPublic PolicyPsychologySociologyScientific ResearchSecurityBiologyChemistryAI SystemsCybersecurity
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- 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 focused on training and enhancing frontier AI systems
Requirements
What you’ll need- 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 able to work as an independent contractor
- H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
Benefits
Comp & perks- Fully remote work
- Flexible own schedule
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Competitive pay
- Collaboration with leading AI researchers, engineers, and safety teams
- Opportunity to shape frontier AI models used by millions worldwide
- Up to $400 for each successful referral
- No limit on the number of referrals
- Reasonable accommodations upon request