Partner & General Counsel — Legal Domain Expert (Hybrid)

Job overview

The Partner & General Counsel — Legal Domain Expert role is a contract opportunity requiring residence in the Bay Area, California, with on-site work as required; the listing title says fully remote, but the description specifies hybrid work. Compensation is $100–$150 per hour, with a 40-hour weekly commitment for six months. Mercor connects creative and technical talent with AI research labs. The legal expert evaluates legal knowledge tasks and AI model outputs, designs legal instructions and evaluation sets, and translates professional legal judgment into criteria that can be used by research teams. The work helps improve AI model performance through independent, deadline-focused collaboration.

What you'll do

• Evaluate legal knowledge tasks and AI model outputs
• identify gaps in legal reasoning
• design instruction specifications and golden solutions
• develop legal tasks and evaluation sets
• build legal-specific skills and tools with research teams
• collaborate with researchers and adjacent specialists
• work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

legal counsel

general counsel

legal domain expert

ai model evaluation

legal research

instruction design

evaluation sets

juris doctor

california bay area

mercor

hybrid

$100–$150/hour

40 hours/week

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires a Juris Doctor, five or more years of substantive legal practice, active U.S. state bar admission, and hands-on use of large language models.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: Employment Placement Agencies. Sector: 56.