MercorOperations Featured JobsSpecial ReferralUS Patent Attorney — Prosecution & Litigation
Remote — United States
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.
Scope of Work
- Review patent-related outputs (prosecution and/or litigation work product) and assess their quality against defined dimensions
- Annotate inline, flagging legal, technical, factual, claim-construction and citation errors
- Provide clear, well-reasoned explanations for each judgment
- Complete all assigned reviews within the review window
- Attend a short onboarding session before kickoff
What you’ll bring
- Are admitted to practice in at least one US state (active bar membership)
- Have 3+ years of US patent practice — patent prosecution (drafting/prosecuting applications before the USPTO) and/or patent litigation (infringement, validity, claim construction)
- For prosecution work: are registered to practice before the USPTO (patent bar, registration number)
- Hold a technical or scientific degree (engineering, computer science, life sciences, chemistry, physics or similar)
- Hold a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school
- Write clearly and pay close attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications
- USPTO registration number (patent bar)
- Experience at an AmLaw 100 firm or a leading patent boutique
- Federal Circuit or district-court patent clerkship
- Prior data annotation, AI evaluation or legal-benchmark experience, including prior legal AI projects with Mercor
Benefits
Not provided in the source listing.
Schedule and availability
Approximately 12–15 hours total, within a defined review window.
Contract & Payment Terms
- Time commitment: approximately 12–15 hours total, within a defined review window
- Immediately required
- You must complete all required reviews, as the project design depends on every attorney finishing the full set
- We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
- You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
- This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
- Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
- Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
- Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.
Where you can work
This role is open to people based in: United States.
Remote does not always mean work from any country. Always check the employer’s location and working-hour requirements.
