Legal Counsel
$100 - $150 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: Partner & General Counsel - Legal Domain Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $100–$150/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 in professional scrutiny.
- Design high-quality instruction specs and produce golden solutions to legal problems. Define new legal tasks reflecting real-world practices.
- Develop challenging legal tasks and evaluation sets. Build legal-specific skills and tools with the research team.
- Collaborate with client researchers and specialists in adjacent fields. Translate tacit legal judgment into explicit, teachable criteria.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .
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.
- Progression to a senior level with real ownership of matters.
- Active admission to at least one U.S. state bar, in good standing.
- Hands-on working use of large language models .
- Commitment to 40 hours/week for 6 months.
- Reside in the Bay Area, California and work on-site as required.
- Excellent written communication skills.
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