AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Up to $22/hr

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 & Odia

Type:Contract

Compensation:$16–$22/hour

Location:Remote

Role Responsibilities

Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify 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 meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

Native fluency in English and Odia.

Strong judgment about language and content accuracy.

Rigorous attention to subtle errors and inconsistencies.

Ability to work to guidelines and quality standards.

Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Adaptability across projects, task types, and customers.

Preferred

Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.

Knowledge in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.

Understanding of socio-technical risks: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.

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

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