AI Safety Specialist
Pubblicato il 11-10-2026 - Mercor in Italia
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.
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