Rise Data Labs is seeking experienced legal professionals and paralegals to contribute to AI training and evaluation projects. You’ll apply your legal knowledge, research skills, and professional judgment to create high-quality tasks that help train and evaluate AI systems.
US Patent Attorney — Prosecution & Litigation
United States
$110 – $125/hr
October 31, 2026
Job description
Client: Pearson
About the Role Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality legal reasoning data. We're hiring US patent attorneys with prosecution and/or litigation experience for a focused evaluation project. You'll review model-generated work product on patent matters, judge its quality, and mark legal, technical, factual and citation errors directly in the materials.
What You'll Do
Review patent-related outputs (prosecution and/or litigation work product) and assess their quality against defined dimensions
Annotate inline, flagging legal, technical, factual, claim-construction and citation errors
Provide clear, well-reasoned explanations for each judgment
Complete all assigned reviews within the review window
Attend a short onboarding session before kickoff
You're a Good Fit If You
Are admitted to practice in at least one US state (active bar membership)
Have 3+ years of US patent practice — patent prosecution (drafting/prosecuting applications before the USPTO) and/or patent litigation (infringement, validity, claim construction)
For prosecution work: are registered to practice before the USPTO (patent bar, registration number)
Hold a technical or scientific degree (engineering, computer science, life sciences, chemistry, physics or similar)
Hold a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school
Write clearly and pay close attention to detail
Bonus Qualifications
USPTO registration number (patent bar)
Experience at an AmLaw 100 firm or a leading patent boutique
Federal Circuit or district-court patent clerkship
Prior data annotation, AI evaluation or legal-benchmark experience, including prior legal AI projects with Mercor
Role Highlights
Time commitment: approximately 12–15 hours total, within a defined review window
Immediately required
You must complete all required reviews, as the project design depends on every attorney finishing the full set
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