First seen by our source: 19 days ago
AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $22/hr
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring AI Safety Experts fluent in English and Gujarati on a contract basis at $20 to $22 per hour, fully remote. The role red-teams conversational AI models and agents to find jailbreaks, prompt injections and misuse cases, then annotates failures and documents them in reproducible reports. The posting requires prior red-teaming experience and asks that candidates complete an AI interview based on their resume.
Pay:
$20–$22 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:
- Fluent in English and Gujarati
- Prior red-teaming experience (adversarial AI, cybersecurity or socio-technical probing)
- Ability to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with adversarial ML is preferred
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- 2026-10-18
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- 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, Gujarati |
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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
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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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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 & Gujarati
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 ensure consistent testing.
- Document reproducibly by producing 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 Gujarati.
- Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
- Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
- Experience with Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
- Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Knowledge of Socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
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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