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AI Safety Expert - Red Team

@ Mercor

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Toronto, Ontario

$20–$22/hr

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Overview

Mercor is hiring an AI Safety Expert for English and Urdu on a remote contract paying $20 to $22 per hour. The role red-teams conversational AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases and bias exploitation, then documents the findings.

Pay:

$20–$22 an hour

Responsibilities:

Red team conversational AI models and agents
Conduct jailbreaks, prompt injections and misuse cases
Annotate failures and classify vulnerabilities
Produce reproducible reports and datasets

Requirements summary:

Native fluency in English and Urdu
Prior red teaming or adversarial AI experience
Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred: adversarial ML or cybersecurity background

Tools & skills

Research Work independently Meet deadlines Cybersecurity Communication skills ML Penetration testing Reverse engineering

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First seen by our source: 2026-10-16
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Job details

Travel	air: none · ground: none
Work setting	Home
Position	Mostly sitting
Physical demands	physical low · computer high
Languages	English, Urdu

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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
Other recorded names: Mercor
Profile identifies a recruitment agency: Yes
Reported total investment: 483,600,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.

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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.

Field	Value
Industry	Software Development
Company size	51-200 employees
Headquarters	San Francisco, California
Organization type	Privately Held
Year founded	2023
Open jobs on Jobsy	1,626
LinkedIn	View page

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 & Urdu
Type: Contract
Compensation: $20–$22/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Red team conversational AI models and agents. Conduct jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain testing consistency.
Document reproducibly. Produce 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 Urdu.
Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
Expertise in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
Creative probing skills in psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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Resources & Support

For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
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