Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants
Core
Funding safety research proposals to address frontier AI safety challenges like misalignment, sandbox escape, and evaluation awareness.
Role type
Research grant program manager / AI safety researcher
Builds
Safety research projects, evaluations, and verification methods for frontier AI models
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / AI Safety
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI safety research, misalignment analysis, sandbox escape detection, evaluation methodology, interpretability, red-teaming, RL environments, adversarial ML, systems security
Preferred skills
Agentic evaluation, measurement, psychometrics, HCI, social science
Technologies
Frontier AI models, RL environments, adversarial ML frameworks
Responsibilities
Reviewing research proposals, managing grant awards, coordinating with researchers, overseeing project execution, ensuring compliance with award terms
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
