Senior Law Librarian Research Attorney

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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
Strong 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

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 fra...