Legal Counsel - AI Model Advisor
$85 - $120 per hourMercor
Job Description
Job Description
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: Senior Counsel — Legal Domain Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85–$120/hour
Location: Hybrid, Bay Area, California
Commitment: 40 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Evaluate the quality of legal knowledge work tasks and AI model outputs . Identify missing behaviors and thin reasoning.
- Develop high-quality instruction specs and golden solutions to legal problems. Define new legal tasks reflecting real-world practices.
- Design challenging legal tasks and evaluation sets. Collaborate with the research team to build legal-specific skills and tools.
- Work with client researchers and specialists to maintain consistent standards. Translate tacit legal judgment into explicit, teachable criteria.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
- 8 to 15 years of substantive post-qualification legal practice.
- Current or past counsel, senior associate, senior in-house counsel, or Assistant General Counsel level.
- Specialization in a substantive practice area like corporate, litigation, regulatory, intellectual property, employment, or tax.
- Admission to at least one U.S. state bar, in good standing.
- Hands-on experience with large language models in professional work.
- Ability to commit to 40 hours per week for 6 months.
- Reside in the Bay Area, California , and work on-site as required.
Compensation & Legal
- W-2 employment with Cincinnatus LLC.
- Hourly contractor , paid weekly.
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