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AI Safety Expert - Red Teaming

@ 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 Odia red teaming of conversational AI models and agents. The contract role is fully remote at $20 to $22 per hour and involves finding jailbreaks, prompt injections and misuse cases, then documenting them in reproducible reports.

Pay:

$20–$22 an hour

Responsibilities:

Red team conversational AI models and agents
Annotate failures and classify vulnerabilities
Follow taxonomies, benchmarks and playbooks
Document findings in reproducible reports and datasets
Work independently and asynchronously to deadlines

Requirements summary:

Fluent English and Odia
Prior red teaming or AI adversarial experience
Cybersecurity or socio-technical probing experience
Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Adversarial ML or creative probing experience preferred

Tools & skills

Research Work independently Meet deadlines Cybersecurity Communication skills ML

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First seen by our source: 2026-10-18
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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

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

Role Responsibilities

Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
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 to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.
Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

Fluent Language Skills Required: English & Odia.
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, Cybersecurity, or Socio-technical risk.
Skills in Creative probing such as psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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