Senior Counsel, Legal Domain Expert
- Pay: $85 to $120 / hour
- Contract: Full time
- Who can apply: United States
- Who can apply: On site
- Posted Aug 12, 2026
In short
Join an AI lab via Mercor as a Senior Counsel, Legal Domain Expert to help build advanced AI models. You will earn 85 to 120 USD per hour in a full time role that requires hybrid presence. If you have deep legal experience and want to shape the future of AI reasoning, this position is for you.
What you will do
- Review legal tasks and model outputs to spot errors and missing reasoning
- Write instruction specs and golden solutions for legal problems
- Design challenging legal tasks, evaluation sets, and benchmarks
- Work with researchers to translate legal judgment into clear criteria
What you need to apply
- Hold a Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and a US state bar admission
- Bring 8 to 15 years of post-qualification legal practice at a reputable institution
- Show hands-on working use of large language models in your professional work
- Commit reliably to 40 hours per week for an initial engagement of 6 months
Who can apply
Residents of US, on site. You must live in the Bay Area, California and work on-site multiple days each week.
My tip
We recommend that you highlight your specific legal practice area and your hands-on experience using large language models when you apply.