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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. Evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, policy compliance, and overall quality.
What You'll Do
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.
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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$60-$70/h - Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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.