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mercor

AI Safety Specialist - Evaluation Expert

mercor
EstoniaPosted 20 days agoDiscoveredMatch locked
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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

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.

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. •

Preferred

Experience with AI Safety

,

RLHF

,

SFT

, Trust & Safety, or AI evaluation. •

Familiarity with safety policies, content moderation, or evaluation rubric development.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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Skills

artificial-intelligence

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