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: Regulatory Law Expert Type:Contract Compensation:$100–$120/hour Location:Remote
Role Responsibilities
Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include rule comment letters, regulatory-change analyses, exam responses, compliance memos, policy drafts, enforcement-defense briefs, and email threads. Represent platforms like Westlaw, LexisNexis, Refinitiv World-Check, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, and CUBE.
Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Structure around end-to-end matters like regulatory-change analysis, rule-making advocacy, examinations, enforcement defense, and compliance-program design. Navigate multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
Collaborate with other regulatory attorneys to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for regulatory-law agent benchmarks.
Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.
Qualifications
Must-Have
JD and active bar admission.
3+ years of full-time regulatory experience at an AmLaw 100 firm or Fortune 500 in-house regulatory / compliance team.
Background in areas such as financial-services regulation, healthcare regulation, energy regulation, telecom/tech regulation, or environmental/consumer-product/food-and-drug regulation.
Day-to-day use of Westlaw, LexisNexis, Refinitiv World-Check, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, and CUBE.
Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.
Compensation & Legal
Transition from an hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.
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