• Serve as the primary legal advisor to multiple business units and corporate functions, providing strategic and practical legal counsel aligned with business objectives and company risk tolerance. • Advise leaders on operational, commercial, product, technology, procurement, data, intellectual property, and regulatory matters. • Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide range of complex commercial agreements, including SaaS agreements, vendor and procurement contracts, technology agreements, strategic partnerships, professional services agreements, licensing agreements, statements of work, data use agreements, and other enterprise transactions. • Provide legal guidance related to data licensing, data governance, privacy, and real-world data (RWD) initiatives, including review and negotiation of agreements involving healthcare data, data acquisition, data commercialization, analytics partnerships, and AI-enabled technologies. • Partner closely with business and technical teams to ensure compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. • Advise on intellectual property matters, including ownership, licensing, protection, commercialization, trademark usage, software and technology rights, open-source considerations, and contractual IP provisions. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support innovation while protecting company assets and mitigating risk. • Partner cross-functionally with stakeholders across Product Development, Procurement, Information Security, Finance, Operations, Sales, Compliance, and other corporate functions to support strategic initiatives, resolve legal issues, and drive alignment between business goals and legal risk management. • Identify, assess, and advise on legal, operational, regulatory, and commercial risks, translating complex legal concepts into practical business recommendations. • Escalate enterprise-level, novel, or high-risk issues to senior legal leadership as appropriate. • Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of legal processes, templates, playbooks, policies, and contracting workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, scalability, and risk management across the Legal Department.

• Provide solution-oriented advice and legal direction from the initial stages of project development to launch. • Collaborate with business partners to manage legal risks related to product, operational, and engineering initiatives. • Develop practical guidance on issues relating to worker classification, AI and data governance, privacy, and intellectual property. • Work closely with legal team members across various disciplines for holistic legal guidance. • Build playbooks and establish processes to help scale legal advice.

Role Description Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. Position: Physics PhD Experts (General Relativity, Astrophysics & Cosmology) Type: Contract Compensation: $70–$90/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 4–6 tasks/week Role Responsibilities - Develop high-quality data sets by creating challenging problems in General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology. - Evaluate and refine AI model training to enhance future AI innovations. - Collaborate with AI research teams to ensure data quality and relevance. - Work independently and asynchronously to meet task deadlines. - Provide structured feedback to improve AI model outputs. Qualifications - PhD in Physics with specialization in General Relativity, Astrophysics, or Cosmology. - Graduate degree from US/UK/Canada/Western Europe. - High attention to detail. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. - Excellent proficiency in English. Requirements - Start Date: February; applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Application Process - Upload resume - AI interview based on your resume - Submit form Resources & Support - For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: Interview Process - For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com - Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements (e.g., MSAs, SOWs, BAAs/DPAs, SaaS and technology, services, licensing, data sharing) using playbooks and clause libraries • Manage redlines, issues lists, internal alignment, and approval workflows through execution; memorialize deviations and approvals • Maintain and improve templates, clause libraries, and playbooks to reduce cycle time and drive consistency • Issue-spot and provide practical guidance on applicable laws and regulations, such as the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), Stark Law, False Claims Act, FDA/DEA requirements relevant to pharmacy and telehealth operations, state pharmacy/professional licensing, PBM contracting/network participation, and HIPAA/HITECH • Conduct targeted research, prepare summaries, and assist with regulatory analyses and alerts; coordinate with Compliance to ensure ownership and accountability across healthcare and pharmacy regulatory domains • Partner with outside counsel on complex or novel regulatory questions; help implement recommendations • Support the Privacy team on HIPAA and data protection matters, including incident response, breach investigations, and privacy compliance activities • Assist with drafting and negotiating privacy and security provisions in client and vendor agreements, including BAAs, DPAs, and security addenda • Partner with internal stakeholders to identify and remediate data handling risks; encourage privacy-by-design practices • Draft, review, and negotiate vendor, procurement, and operations agreements (IT/SaaS, professional services, logistics/delivery, marketing vendors, clinical vendors), including MSAs, SOWs, order forms, renewals, and amendments • Partner with Procurement, Finance, Security/IT, Privacy, and Compliance on intake, diligence, and approvals (e.g., security questionnaires, BAAs/DPAs, SOC 2/ISO docs, COIs) • Negotiate and document SLAs, support/uptime, data handling/retention, audit rights, business continuity/DR, termination/transition assistance, and fee/charge guardrails • Provide timely, business-oriented legal advice to Commercial, Partnerships, and Operations teams • Contribute to process improvements (e.g., workflow design, CLM hygiene, playbook refinements, dashboards) that scale the legal function • Support communications and marketing review for external messaging, disclosures, and public statements • Collaborate with Compliance on training materials, audits, and corrective actions • Assist with risk assessments, internal inquiries, and remediation planning as needed