Regulatory Law Expert

About this role

**Role Overview** Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs on **Project Atlas** — an initiative to build realistic enterprise environments that frontier AI agents are trained and evaluated in. We're seeking experienced regulatory attorneys from **AmLaw 100 firms with regulatory practices and Fortune 500 in-house regulatory / compliance teams** to recreate the digital workspaces they run every day and design the tasks that genuinely challenge state-of-the-art AI. You'll bring your expertise in administrative law and sector-specific regulation (financial services, healthcare, energy, telecom, consumer products) to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and workflows of a sophisticated regulatory practice — and then author tasks grounded in the matters you actually handle today. **Key Responsibilities** - Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day — the rule comment letters, regulatory-change analyses, exam / investigation responses, compliance memos, policy and procedure drafts, enforcement-defense briefs, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work — with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Westlaw / LexisNexis, Refinitiv World-Check / Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, CUBE) - Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows — structured around end-to-end matters (regulatory-change analysis, rule-making advocacy, examinations / investigations, enforcement defense, compliance-program design) — that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents - Collaborate with other regulatory attorneys in your field to design the environment, shape task scope, and review each other's scenarios for realism and rigor - Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for regulatory-law agent benchmarks - Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking — the work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems **Ideal Qualifications** - JD and active bar admission - 3+ years of full-time regulatory experience at an **AmLaw 100 firm or Fortune 500 in-house regulatory / compliance team** - Background in one or more areas such as: - Financial-services regulation (SEC, FINRA, CFTC, OCC, Fed, CFPB, state DFS) - Healthcare regulation (FDA, CMS, HHS OIG, state health agencies) - Energy regulation (FERC, NRC, state PUCs) - Telecom / tech regulation (FCC, FTC, state attorneys general) - Environmental / consumer-product / food-and-drug regulation - Day-to-day use of Westlaw / LexisNexis, Refinitiv World-Check / Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, and CUBE - Strong analytical thinking and writing — able to translate regulatory workflows into structured task specs **Compensation Note** - **Task Completion Pay:** Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,750 – $2,150 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves) - **Performance Bonus:** Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate! - **Hourly Opportunity:** Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.

Eligible applicant countries

This role accepts applicants from:

• USA

Skills & domains

• ai-training
• rlhf
• sme
• annotation
• Law