Senior Legal Counsel

Mercor
San Francisco, CA
Category Legal
Job Description
Role Overview

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will evaluate the quality of legal knowledge work tasks and AI model outputs, design high-quality instruction specs, and develop challenging legal tasks and evaluation sets. You will work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance. This is a contract position with a commitment of 40 hours/week for 6 months.

What You Will Do

Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include evaluating legal knowledge work tasks, designing instruction specs, developing challenging legal tasks, and collaborating with client researchers and specialists.

Why It Might Be a Fit

To be a fit for this role, you must have a Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school, 5+ years of substantive post-qualification legal practice, and specialization in at least one substantive practice area. You should also have excellent written communication skills and hands-on working use of large language models.

Requirements

  • Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school
  • 5+ years of substantive post-qualification legal practice
  • Specialization in at least one substantive practice area
  • 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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