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

- Robust 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

📌 Senior Law Librarian / Research Attorney (Sydney)
🏢 Recognized
📍 Sydney