AI Safety Practitioner - Fully Remote | Upto $70/hr

About the job

Mercor

connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include

Benchmark

,

General Catalyst

,

Peter Thiel

,

Adam D'Angelo

,

Larry Summers

, and

Jack Dorsey

.

Position:

AI Safety Practitioner

Type:

Contract

Compensation:

$60–$70/hour

Location: Remote

Role 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.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 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

• 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.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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