AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $62/hr

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.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing jailbreaks, prompt injections, 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.

Requirements

• Fluent in English and Dutch.
• Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

Preferred:

• Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks.
• Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Skills in Socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis.
• Creative probing skills in psychology, acting, or writing.

Pay

$48–$62/hour