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Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Funding independent research proposals to address AI safety challenges such as misalignment, sandbox escape, evaluation awareness, interpretability, oversight, and red-teaming.

Role type

AI Safety Research Grant Program

Builds

Safety research outputs including papers, open datasets, public methodologies, and tools for the field.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence Safety / Machine Learning

Deliverable

research

Required skills

ML, CS, statistics, measurement, psychometrics, HCI, security, social science

Preferred skills

agentic evaluation, RL environments, adversarial ML, systems security

Responsibilities

Review and fund proposals from independent researchers, academics, and small teams to conduct safety research.

Seniority

Programmatic / Grant Administration

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