Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants
Mercor· Research
San Francisco, Mexico | Mexico City, New York City, LondonTemporaryPosted 1mo ago
About the role
Mercor’s AI Safety Fund Grants offering funds safety research proposals related to alignment, sandboxing, evaluation awareness, interpretability, oversight and red-teaming, with awards to researcher institutions.
Responsibilities
- Submit an Expression of Interest with sections on team/background, proposed research project, outputs/impact, timelines and resource requirements.
Qualifications
- Researchers at universities and non-profit research organizations, as well as public benefit corporations and small startups that do not sell AI training data
- Background in ML, CS, statistics, or an adjacent field (measurement, psychometrics, HCI, security, social science)
- Bonus: experience with agentic evaluation, RL environments, adversarial ML, or systems security
Benefits
- Funding for researcher time, API costs, and event attendance
- Access to Mercor's expert network for human grading, red-teaming, and annotation
- Access to Mercor's internal evaluation infrastructure, subject to review
- Introductions to Mercor's network of researchers across frontier labs and academia
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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