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

Mercor is a platform connecting elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. We are currently seeking an experienced AI Safety Practitioner to join our team and contribute to the development of safe and reliable artificial intelligence models.

Key responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, policy compliance, and overall quality.
• Review content involving sensitive domains such as misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, violence, cyber, and biosecurity.
• 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.

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, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning skills.
• Ability to consistently evaluate nuanced and policy-sensitive scenarios.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work with top-tier AI research labs on cutting-edge safety initiatives.
• Fully remote work environment allowing for professional flexibility.
• Collaboration with expert AI researchers and safety teams.
• Engagement in high-impact projects that shape the future of AI alignment.