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AI Safety Specialist (Remote, $60–$70/hr)
Mercor · Vestfirðir
Job description
About the role
We are looking for an experienced AI Safety Specialist to join our remote team on a contract basis. You will help ensure that AI‑generated content meets the highest standards of safety, factual accuracy, and policy compliance.
Key responsibilities
- Evaluate AI‑generated responses for safety, factual correctness, and alignment with policy guidelines.
- Review content that involves misinformation, political persuasion, self‑harm, violence, cyber threats, biosecurity, and other high‑risk 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.
Required profile
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant discipline (e.g., Journalism, Computer Science, Public Policy, Biology, etc.).
- 5+ years of professional experience in AI safety, trust & safety, journalism, public policy, scientific research, or related fields.
- Excellent written English, strong critical‑thinking and analytical reasoning abilities.
- Proven ability to evaluate nuanced, policy‑sensitive scenarios consistently.
Required skills
- AI safety evaluation methodologies (RLHF, SFT).
- Experience with safety policies, content moderation, and rubric development.
- Familiarity with high‑risk content review.
What we offer
- Contract position with competitive hourly rate of $60–$70.
- Fully remote work arrangement.
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading AI research labs.
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