Pay: $180 per hour (USD).
About the Role Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality legal reasoning data. We're hiring US patent attorneys with prosecution and/or litigation experience for a focused evaluation project. You'll review model-generated work product on patent matters, judge its quality, and mark legal, technical, factual and citation errors directly in the materials.
What You'll Do
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Review patent-related outputs (prosecution and/or litigation work product) and assess their quality against defined dimensions
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Annotate inline, flagging legal, technical, factual, claim-construction and citation errors
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Provide clear, well-reasoned explanations for each judgment
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Complete all assigned reviews within the review window
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Attend a short onboarding session before kickoff
You're a Good Fit If You
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Are admitted to practice in at least one US state (active bar membership)
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Have 3+ years of US patent practice — patent prosecution (drafting/prosecuting applications before the USPTO) and/or patent litigation (infringement, validity, claim construction)
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For prosecution work: are registered to practice before the USPTO (patent bar, registration number)
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Hold a technical or scientific degree (engineering, computer science, life sciences, chemistry, physics or similar)
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Hold a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school
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Write clearly and pay close attention to detail
Bonus Qualifications
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USPTO registration number (patent bar)
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Experience at an AmLaw 100 firm or a leading patent boutique
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Federal Circuit or district-court patent clerkship
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Prior data annotation, AI evaluation or legal-benchmark experience, including prior legal AI projects with Mercor
Role Highlights
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Time commitment: approximately 12–15 hours total, within a defined review window
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Immediately required
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You must complete all required reviews, as the project design depends on every attorney finishing the full set