Legal AI Evaluator

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: Legal AI Evaluator

Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work

Compensation: $105/hour

Location: USA, EU, UK, Canada

Role Responsibilities

• Write and refine prompts to guide model behavior in legal use cases.
• Evaluate LLM-generated responses to legal queries for accuracy, reasoning, clarity, and completeness.
• Conduct fact-checking using trusted public sources and authoritative references.
• Annotate model responses by identifying strengths, areas of improvement, and factual or conceptual inaccuracies.
• Assess tone, completeness, and appropriateness of responses for real-world legal scenarios.
• Apply consistent evaluation standards by following clear taxonomies, benchmarks, and detailed evaluation guidelines.

Qualifications

Must-Have:

• Minimum of 5 years of real-world professional experience in Law with an expert degree (JD, LLB, LLM, or equivalent).
• Experience in sub-domains such as Corporate, Business & Commercial Law; Employment, Labor & Human Rights; Public, Criminal & International Governance; Private Law.
• Significant experience using large language models (LLMs) and understanding of their applications.
• Excellent writing skills with the ability to clearly explain complex legal concepts.
• Comfortable evaluating complex arguments and identifying subtle reasoning or detail-level issues.

Preferred:

• Prior experience with RLHF, model evaluation, or data annotation work.
• Experience writing or editing high-quality legal or analytical content.
• Experience translating legal concepts for non-legal audiences.
• Familiarity with evaluation rubrics, benchmarks, or quality scoring systems.

Application Process

This process takes 20–30 minutes to complete and includes:

• Uploading your resume
• Completing an AI interview based on your resume
• Submitting an application form

For details about the interview process and platform, visit: Interview Process.

For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

Key skills/competency

• legal evaluation
• LLM experience
• prompt writing
• fact-checking
• legal research
• annotation
• legal writing
• analysis
• taxonomies
• evaluation metrics