Legal Expert

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: Legal Domain Expert — AI Training & Evaluation
Type: Contract
Compensation: $60–$100/hour
Location: Hybrid, Bay Area, California
Commitment: 40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality of legal knowledge work tasks and AI model outputs to identify missing behaviors and thin reasoning.
• Write high-quality instruction specs and produce golden solutions for legal problems, defining new tasks that reflect real-world practice.
• Design challenging legal tasks and evaluation sets to build legal-specific skills and tools with the research team.
• Collaborate with client researchers and specialists to maintain consistent standards, translating tacit legal judgment into explicit criteria.
• Work independently and collaboratively on-site with the client's team multiple days each week.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
• 5+ years of substantive post-qualification legal practice.
• Specialization in at least one substantive practice area.
• Seniority with real ownership of matters.
• Active admission to at least one U.S. state bar.
• Hands-on use of large language models in professional work.
• Commitment to 40 hours per week for an initial 6 months .
• Reside in the Bay Area, California , and able to work on-site.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

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