Senior Legal Expert - Fully Remote

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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Mercor