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Mercor

AI Safety Practitioner

Mercor

  • Remote
  • Contract
  • Science
  • Posted Jul 16, 2026
  • $60–$70

About the role

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. You will assess AI-generated responses, apply safety policies, and help improve model behavior through structured evaluations and feedback.

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.

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.

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.

External opportunity. AI Trainers is not the employer. This posting was collected from a public career page. Application is completed on the employer’s website.

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