Lead Mercor's Law domain on Project Sage by overseeing legal experts, reviewing citation-backed legal research, assessing task complexity, and ensuring high-quality AI training data across statutes, case law, and procedural rules.
Law / compliance (Meridian)
Remote (Global)
$100 – $175/hr
May 19, 2026
Job description
Mercor is seeking experienced legal, compliance, regulatory, and audit professionals to contribute expertise toward frontier AI training and evaluation projects focused on law, governance, and compliance workflows.
This role focuses on supporting AI systems through:
- Rubric-style evaluation tasks
- Legal and compliance reasoning analysis
- LLM prompt design
- AI output evaluation
- Regulatory and audit workflow assessment
The ideal candidate has prior experience completing Mercor rubric-based tasks and is comfortable evaluating AI-generated legal, compliance, and regulatory outputs.
Key Responsibilities
Support projects involving:
- Legal operations
- Compliance programs
- Regulatory analysis
- Audit workflows
- Governance processes
- Risk management
Design and refine:
- LLM prompts
- Legal evaluation rubrics
- Compliance reasoning tasks
Evaluate AI-generated outputs for:
- Legal accuracy
- Regulatory correctness
- Compliance consistency
- Audit quality
- Operational realism
Apply expertise in:
- Regulatory frameworks
- Compliance operations
- Audit procedures
- Legal documentation
- Governance standards
Contribute domain expertise to improve AI systems trained on real-world legal and compliance scenarios
Ideal Qualifications
Experience in:
- Compliance
- Legal operations
- Regulatory affairs
- Internal audit
- Governance and risk management
- Corporate legal functions
Prior experience with:
- Mercor rubric-style tasks
- LLM evaluation
- Prompt design
- AI output assessment
Strong:
- Analytical thinking
- Legal reasoning
- Written communication
- Attention to detail
Ability to assess legal and compliance workflows with consistency and rigor
Compensation
- $100–175/hour
- Weekly payments through Stripe or Wise
Contract & Payment Terms
- Independent contractor engagement
- Fully remote work
- Flexible schedule
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded depending on business needs and performance
- Work does not involve access to confidential employer or client information
Important Note
Mercor currently cannot support:
- H1-B candidates
- STEM OPT candidates
About Mercor
Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train and improve frontier AI systems using real-world human expertise.
Contributors collaborate with researchers and legal professionals on projects shaping the future of AI-driven compliance systems, regulatory analysis, and legal reasoning workflows.
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