Attorney / Legal Expert (Real Estate / Energy) - AI Training Project

Role Overview

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI organization to engage attorneys and legal professionals for a project focused on improving the legal reasoning of AI systems in energy and real property law. This flexible, contract-based engagement involves reviewing, annotating, and refining legal content drawn from documents such as leases, easements, conveyances, and interconnection agreements, helping make AI-generated legal analysis more accurate, clear, and useful.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and annotate energy and real-property legal documents against detailed written instructions

• Provide exhaustive, citation-backed determinations, citing the document, page, and verbatim text supporting each conclusion, with a clear natural-language explanation of your reasoning

• Apply consistent legal judgment across many documents and flag ambiguities for senior review

• Quality-check the work of other reviewers and help resolve disagreements (more senior contributors)

• Collaborate with researchers to assess and improve model performance

Ideal Qualifications

• JD from an ABA-accredited US law school, paralegal, or land/title professional

• Active US bar license in good standing (for attorney-level roles)

• Experience in real estate, energy, land use, or similar transactional practice

• Comfortable reading leases, easements, deeds, and similar instruments independently

• Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to locate and cite primary authority

• Familiarity with energy projects (oil and gas, solar, wind, transmission) or wholesale power markets (e.g., RTOs/ISOs) a plus

• We are hiring at three levels and will calibrate during screening:

• Tier 1 (Specialist / Law Clerk)

• Tier 2 (Associate / Senior Associate)

• Tier 3 (Partner)

More About the Opportunity

• Must be based in the United States; a project-provided Chromebook will be shipped to you for this work

Compensation & Contract Terms

• $50–$150/hour for US-based professionals, based on experience level.

Application Process

• Submit your resume to begin

• Complete a short skills assessment (about 15 minutes) covering energy and real-property law

• Mercor will follow up with qualified applicants

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.