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

Compensation

• Pay: $150 – $170/hour
• Type: Hourly contract
• Location: Remote