AI Safety Practitioner

Mercor

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.

Posted 8/16/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $60 - $70 per hourWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AI Safety, Trust & Safety, and evaluation methodologies, with a strong focus on critical thinking and analytical reasoning. Proficient in developing and applying evaluation rubrics for AI systems while ensuring compliance with safety policies and content moderation standards.

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AI SafetyTrust & SafetyEvaluation Rubric DevelopmentCritical ThinkingAnalytical Reasoning

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Hard Skills

AI EvaluationRLHFSFTContent ModerationPolicy ComplianceFactual Accuracy AssessmentQuality EvaluationMisinformation ReviewSafety BenchmarkingRisk Assessment

Soft Skills

Excellent Written EnglishNuanced EvaluationCollaboration

Industry Keywords

JournalismPublic PolicyScientific ResearchSecurityBiologyChemistryComputer SciencePolicy ViolationsSelf-HarmCybersecurity

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 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
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

Comp & perks

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