First seen by our source: 19 days ago
AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $22/hr
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring a contract AI Safety Expert fluent in English and Punjabi for fully remote work at $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 findings in reports and datasets.
Pay:
$20–$22 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Red team conversational AI models and agents
- Generate and annotate high-quality human data
- Apply taxonomies, benchmarks and playbooks
- Document findings in reports, datasets and attack cases
Requirements summary:
- Fluent in English and Punjabi
- Prior red teaming experience
- Strong communication skills
- Adaptable across projects and customers
- Adversarial ML experience preferred
- Cybersecurity skills preferred
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- 2026-10-18
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- 2026-10-18
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Job details
| Department | Quality assurance |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English, Punjabi |
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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 |
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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 & Punjabi
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 consistent testing.
- Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Fluent in English and Punjabi.
- Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
- Strong communication skills. Explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptable. Thrive on moving across projects and customers.
Preferred
- Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
- Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Socio-technical risk expertise: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
- Creative probing abilities: 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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