Contract & Commercial Expert

What you'll do

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.