Mercor is hiring experienced Senior Law Librarians and Research Attorneys to help design complex, high-quality legal research questions for an AI evaluation benchmark. This role is ideal for professionals who regularly handle escalated or cross-jurisdictional research questions and are skilled at framing nuanced research problems.
Key Responsibilities
* Draft sophisticated legal research questions reflecting complex firm-level inquiries
* Design issues requiring:
o Multi-jurisdictional analysis
o Conflicting authority resolution
o Deep precedent synthesis
* Ensure all questions are grounded in identifiable, authoritative legal sources
* Maintain clarity, realism, and practical scope
Requirements
* 8+ years of experience as a law librarian, research attorney, or senior legal research specialist
* Extensive experience handling complex or escalated research requests
* Strong understanding of legal research methodologies
* Exceptional issue-framing and writing skills
Nice to Have
* Experience training associates on research techniques
* Exposure to AI tools in legal research
* Prior dataset annotation or benchmark development experience
Why Join
* Apply deep research expertise to shape how AI systems are evaluated on legal reasoning
* Flexible engagement structure
* Work with a top-tier AI research organization
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