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:
- Multi-jurisdictional analysis
- Conflicting authority resolution
- 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