# Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants at Mercor

- Company: Mercor
- What the company does: Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. We are powering frontier research, AI benchmarks, and AI agent training at scale for the top AI labs and enterprises. Backed by General Catalyst and Menlo.
- Company website: https://mercor.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/1d59ce50-4207-4d95-b7fd-5a01e90b0897
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercor-mercor-ai-safety-fund-grants/

## About the role

This is separate from the Mercor Research Fellowship, which funds benchmark and economics work. You can apply to that HERE . If your work doesn't fit neatly into these, apply anyway. Strong proposals outside this list are welcome.

## What they're looking for

- We're open to proposals across the full range of safety interests. We're particularly interested in:
- Misalignment : deceptive alignment, goal misgeneralization, reward hacking, scheming, and situationally-aware failure modes
- Sandbox escape : containment failures, privilege escalation, tool misuse, and agents operating outside their intended scope
- Evaluation awareness : models detecting they are being tested and behaving differently under observation than in deployment
- Interpretability : understanding what models are actually doing internally, and whether that can be made legible to a human reviewer
- Oversight and control : scalable supervision, human-in-the-loop reliability, and what breaks when the system is more capable than its reviewer

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