AI Safety Practitioner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Assess AI-generated responses for safety, factual correctness, adherence to policies, and overall quality.

• Analyze content that includes misinformation, political bias, self-harm, violence, cybersecurity, biosecurity, and other sensitive topics.

• Implement and enhance evaluation criteria for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), and AI safety benchmarking.

• Detect unsafe outputs, hallucinations, reasoning errors, and breaches of policy.

• Deliver structured feedback aimed at enhancing model alignment and safety effectiveness.

• Partner with AI researchers and safety teams on ongoing evaluation projects.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Sociology, Public Policy, Law, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, or a related field.

• Over 5 years of professional experience in AI Safety, Trust & Safety, journalism, public policy, scientific research, security, or a similar area.

• Exceptional proficiency in written English.

• Strong critical thinking and analytical reasoning abilities.

• Capability to consistently assess nuanced and policy-sensitive situations.

• Experience in AI Safety, RLHF, SFT, Trust & Safety, or AI evaluation.

• Familiarity with safety policies, content moderation, or the development of evaluation rubrics.

• Proven experience in reviewing complex, high-risk, or ambiguous content.

• Candidates must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support; Mercor is unable to assist H1-B or STEM OPT candidates.

🏝️ Benefits

• Completely remote position.

• Flexible scheduling.

• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.

• Project durations can be extended, shortened, or concluded early based on needs and performance.

• Opportunity to collaborate with top AI researchers, engineers, and safety teams.

• Contribute to shaping the next generation of AI systems.

• Referral bonuses of up to $400 for each successful referral.

• Reasonable accommodations available upon request.