AI Safety Practitioner
We are seeking experienced AI Safety Practitioners to evaluate the safety, quality, and alignment of frontier AI models across complex, policy-sensitive, and ambiguous ("grey-area") topics.
Hiring companyMercor
About the role
You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback.
Why Join?
- Shape the safety and behaviour of frontier AI models used by millions worldwide.
- Work on challenging, real-world safety evaluations across nuanced and high-impact domains.
- Collaborate with leading AI researchers, engineers, and safety teams.
Contract and Payment Terms
- You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
- This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
- Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
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.
Required skills
- 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 skills
- 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.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Applicant eligibility: 40 eligible countries
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Eligible countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.
Compensation details
$60–$70 per hour.
- Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
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