AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $22/hr

About the role

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.

This is a remote contract position.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify vulnerabilities such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
• Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
• Document findings reproducibly to create reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Requirements

• Fluent in English and Assamese.
• Prior experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work, or cybersecurity.
• Strong communication skills to explain risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with adversarial ML, cybersecurity, and socio-technical risk analysis.
• Skills in creative probing such as psychology, acting, or unconventional adversarial thinking.

Pay

$20–$22/hour