AI Safety Expert – English, Finnish
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Job Description
AI safety red teamer probing conversational AI models for Mercor’s human-data AI projects. Generating reproducible vulnerability data that strengthens frontier AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- Red team conversational AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
- Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks
- Follow taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to keep testing consistent
- Produce reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers
- Uncover vulnerabilities automated tests miss
- Expand evaluation coverage and reduce production surprises
- Collaborate with leading researchers and work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
Requirements:
- Fluent/native English and Finnish required
- Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing
- Ability to probe AI systems adversarially and push systems to breaking points
- Experience using frameworks or benchmarks for structured testing
- Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Adaptability across projects and customers
- Independent contractor engagement
- Must not be an H1-B or STEM OPT candidate
- Nice-to-have: adversarial ML experience, including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, or model extraction
- Nice-to-have: cybersecurity experience, including penetration testing, exploit development, or reverse engineering
- Nice-to-have: socio-technical risk experience, including harassment/disinformation probing, abuse analysis, or conversational AI testing
- Nice-to-have: psychology, acting, or writing experience for unconventional adversarial thinking
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Wellness resources and clear guidelines for higher-sensitivity projects
- Opportunity to build experience in human data-driven AI red teaming
- Direct role in making AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy
- Competitive pay
- Referral bonus of up to $250 per successful referral






