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AI Safety Expert - Adversarial ML

@ Mercor

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Toronto, Ontario

$16–$22/hr
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Overview

Mercor is hiring AI Safety Experts fluent in English and Kannada on a remote contract paying $16–$22/hour. The role red-teams conversational AI models and agents to find jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases and bias exploitation, then documents the findings as reports, datasets and attack cases.

Pay:

$16–$22 an hour

Responsibilities:

  • Red team conversational AI models and agents for jailbreaks and prompt injections
  • Annotate failures and classify vulnerabilities as human data
  • Apply taxonomies, benchmarks and playbooks for consistent testing
  • Produce reports, datasets and attack cases for customer action

Requirements summary:

  • Native fluency in English and Kannada
  • Strong judgment about language and content accuracy
  • Rigorous attention to subtle errors and gaps
  • Ability to follow guidelines and quality standards
  • Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience in adversarial ML or cybersecurity preferred

Tools & skills

MLResearchCommunication skillsAdaptabilityCybersecurityPenetration testingReverse engineering
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Travelair: none · ground: none
Work settingHome
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish

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We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.

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Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.

LinkedIn followers
654,507
People associated on LinkedIn
5,250
Reported office locations
  • San Francisco, California 94105, US
Business categories
  • Employment
  • Software
  • Recruiting
  • Data Collection and Labeling
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Machine Learning
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  • Mercor
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Reported total investment
483,600,000

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Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.

FieldValue
IndustrySoftware Development
Company size51-200 employees
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Organization typePrivately Held
Year founded2023
Open jobs on Jobsy1,626
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Job description

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 & Kannada
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 using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
  • Document reproducibly by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Native fluency in English and Kannada.
  • Strong judgment about language and content accuracy.
  • Rigorous attention to subtle errors, inconsistencies, and gaps.
  • Ability to work to guidelines and quality standards consistently.
  • Clear communication with both 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 risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
  • Skills in creative probing: 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

Resources & Support

  • For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
  • For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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