About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: Contract & Commercial Expert
Type:Contract
Compensation:$110–$150/hour
Location:Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Develop long-horizon contracting tasks with deterministic rubrics to evaluate agent performance against verifiable ground truth.
- Create scenarios in Drafting such as MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, and DPAs with required clauses and defined parameter values.
- Design Review and negotiation scenarios involving redlines that resolve to pre-defined fallback positions per a playbook.
- Build Post-signature work scenarios for obligation extractions and clause classification against a defined taxonomy.
- Collaborate with AI labs to ensure scenarios are challenging and require focused long sessions.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and improve AI model performance.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- JD; 3+ years practicing commercial/transactional law (in-house or firm).
- Bar admission in at least one US state (or equivalent foreign qualification).
- Expertise in SaaS commercial terms, data protection (GDPR, CCPA, DPAs), IP and licensing, indemnity and limitation-of-liability structures, CLM tooling (Ironclad, Agiloft, LinkSquares, DocuSign CLM).
- Comfortable with contract artifacts: redlines, playbook entries, abstraction summaries, fallback positions.
- Clear written communication; can articulate reasoning step by step and encode it into deterministic rubrics.
Compensation & Legal
- Hourly contractor
- Paid weekly
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.