AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $45/hr

mercor - United States - original posting ->
Status
Open
Remote policy
Remote
Employment type
Not stated
Salary
Not stated
Categories
AI-Safety-Specialist, Red-Teamer, AI-Safety-Researcher, Prompt-Engineer, AI-Security-Specialist, AI-Safety-Analyst, AI-Safety-Expert, AI-Safety-Practitioner, AI-Safety-Evaluator
Source
himalayas
First observed
2026-08-13 13:51 UTC
Last seen
2026-08-13 13:51 UTC
Source claims posted
2026-08-13 12:13 UTC
Consecutive misses
7 of 10

What the posting says

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 & Portuguese (global)

Type:Contract

Compensation:$29–$45/hour

Location:Remote

Role Responsibilities

Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.

Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.

Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.

Document reproducibly by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.

Work independently and asynchronously to improve AI model performance and ensure safety.

Qualifications

Must-Have

Native fluency in English and Portuguese (global, excluding Brazilian Portuguese).

Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.

Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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 skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

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Originally posted on Himalayas

Quality

Completeness: 65%
Honesty: 100%

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