AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote

About the job

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: AI Safety Experts — English & Punjabi

Type: Contract

Compensation: $20–$22/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents. Conduct jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
• Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Fluent in English and Punjabi .
• Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Strong communication skills. Explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable. Thrive on moving across projects and customers.

Preferred

• Experience in Adversarial ML : jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
• Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Socio-technical risk expertise: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Creative probing abilities: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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