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AI Safety Expert - Red Team

@ Mercor

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Toronto, Ontario

$48–$62/hr
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Overview

Mercor is hiring AI Safety Experts to red team conversational AI models and agents in English and Finnish. The contract role is remote, pays $48–$62 per hour, and involves independent, asynchronous work across projects and customers.

Pay:

$48–$62 an hour

Responsibilities:

  • Red team conversational AI models and agents for jailbreaks and prompt injections
  • Annotate failures and classify vulnerabilities and systemic risks
  • Follow taxonomies, benchmarks and playbooks for consistent testing
  • Produce reproducible reports, datasets and attack cases

Requirements summary:

  • Native fluency in English and Finnish
  • Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity or socio-technical probing
  • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to move across projects and customers

Tools & skills

ResearchWork independentlyMeet deadlinesCybersecurityCommunication skillsMLPenetration 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 & Finnish
Type: Contract
Compensation: $48–$62/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 Finnish.
  • Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
  • Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to thrive on moving across projects and customers.

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: 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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