Senior Law Librarian / Research Attorney

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

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.