Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs to advance frontier agent evaluations in commercial law. As a Contract & Commercial Expert, you’ll build long-horizon contracting tasks that mirror the work you already do, each paired with a deterministic rubric that grades agent performance against verifiable ground truth. Tasks need to have checkable answers; no open-ended essays, no subjective judgment calls.

Expect to build scenarios across:

• Drafting: MSAs/SOWs/NDAs/DPAs with required clauses and defined parameter values
• Review and negotiation: redlines resolving to pre-defined fallback positions per a playbook
• Post-signature work: obligation extractions with a ground-truth list, clause classification against a defined taxonomy

These scenarios will be challenging and take long sessions of focus.

Who we’re looking for

• JD; 3+ years practicing commercial/transactional law (in-house or firm)
• Bar admission in at least one US state (or equivalent foreign qualification)
• Expertise in one or more of the following: SaaS commercial terms, data protection (GDPR, CCPA, DPAs), IP and licensing, indemnity and limitation-of-liability structures, CLM tooling (Ironclad, Agiloft, LinkSquares, DocuSign CLM)
• Comfortable reading and producing contract artifacts: redlines, playbook entries, abstraction summaries, fallback positions
• Clear written communication; can articulate reasoning step by step and encode it into deterministic rubrics
• Located in the United States

Compensation

$110–$150/hr depending on domain depth and prior experience. Strong contributors are promoted based on task quality and throughput.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.