Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist

Job overview

The Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist role is remote, with the posting specifying a commitment of 10 or more hours per week. Compensation is $83–$105 per hour. Mercor connects creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The specialist creates and reviews legal benchmark questions that assess deep legal understanding. The work contributes precise, challenging legal content and verification feedback for AI research and evaluation.

What you'll do

• Author original law questions that test conceptual understanding
• ensure questions are unambiguous and self-contained
• rate question difficulty
• provide one correct answer and nine plausible incorrect alternatives
• write step-by-step solutions in markdown
• supply academic references
• flag clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability issues in verification tasks and justify edits.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

applied legal benchmark specialist

remote

mercor

contract

10+ hours/week

legal reasoning

question authoring

benchmark evaluation

statutory interpretation

jurisprudential theory

jd

$83–$105/hr

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting identifies the engagement as contract and remote. Required qualifications include a JD, LLM, SJD, doctoral candidacy in law or a closely related field; a master’s degree may be considered for exceptional subdomain depth.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Sector: 54.