Legal Specialist - AI Evaluator

About Mercor

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 Specialist - 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, supported by an associated expert degree (e.g., JD, LLB, LLM, or equivalent).
• Experience in one or more of the following sub-domains: 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 use.
• Excellent writing skills and 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

Takes 20–30 mins to complete

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome/welcome

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

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

Key skills/competency

• Legal evaluation
• LLM understanding
• Fact-checking
• Prompt engineering
• Legal research
• Data annotation
• Corporate law
• Employment law
• Criminal law
• Legal writing