AI Safety Practitioner

🕒 August 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $70 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

👻 Ghost score 12%

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

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📋 Description

• 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 • Work on projects training and enhancing frontier AI systems

🎯 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 • Experience with AI Safety, RLHF, SFT, Trust & Safety, or AI evaluation preferred • Familiarity with safety policies, content moderation, or evaluation rubric development preferred • Experience reviewing complex, high-risk, or ambiguous content preferred • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible own schedule • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Competitive pay • Collaboration with leading AI researchers, engineers, and safety teams • Opportunity to shape frontier AI models used by millions worldwide • Up to $400 for each successful referral, with no limit on referrals • Reasonable accommodations upon request