First seen by our source: 20 days ago
AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $22/hr
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring an AI Safety Specialist on a remote contract paying $20 to $22 per hour. The work is red teaming conversational AI models and agents for jailbreaks, prompt injections and misuse, plus annotating failures and documenting findings. Fluency in English and Assamese is required.
Pay:
$20–$22 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Red team conversational AI models and agents for vulnerabilities
- Annotate failures and classify vulnerabilities in human data
- Apply taxonomies, benchmarks and playbooks for consistent testing
- Document findings in reproducible reports and attack cases
Requirements summary:
- Fluent in English and Assamese
- Prior experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work or cybersecurity
- Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with adversarial ML preferred
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- 2026-10-17
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- 2026-10-17
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Job details
| Department | Software development |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Mercor
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We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
Full company description
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.
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 |
| View page |
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 & Assamese
Type: Contract
Compensation: $20–$22/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify vulnerabilities such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
- Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
- Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
- Document findings reproducibly to create reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Fluent in English and Assamese.
- Prior experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work, or cybersecurity.
- Strong communication skills to explain risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
- Experience with adversarial ML, cybersecurity, and socio-technical risk analysis.
- Skills in creative probing such as psychology, acting, or 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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