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Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants

Mercor is hiring for Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants in San Francisco. Staff level. First seen September 16, 2026; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Mercor
Where
San Francisco
Level
Staff
First seen
September 16, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

What we're looking for We're open to proposals across the full range of safety interests. We're particularly interested in: - Misalignment: deceptive alignment, goal misgeneralization, reward hacking, scheming, and situationally-aware failure modes - Sandbox escape: containment failures, privilege escalation, tool misuse, and agents operating outside their intended scope - Evaluation awareness: models detecting they are being tested and behaving differently under observation than in deployment - Interpretability: understanding what models are actually doing internally, and whether that can…

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