AI Safety Expert – English, Odia
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Job Description
AI safety expert red-teaming Mercor’s frontier AI models through adversarial testing and human-data generation. Evaluating vulnerabilities in English and Odia across flexible, fully remote contract projects.
Responsibilities:
- Red-team conversational AI models and agents using jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
- Generate human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks
- Apply taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to keep testing consistent
- Produce reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases customers can act on
- Review AI outputs involving sensitive topics such as bias, misinformation, and harmful behaviors
- Uncover vulnerabilities that automated tests miss
- Expand evaluation coverage and reduce production surprises
- Strengthen customer AI systems and support safer, more trustworthy AI
- Collaborate with leading researchers on projects training and enhancing frontier AI systems
Requirements:
- Native fluency in English and Odia is required
- Strong judgment about language and content; ability to assess whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate and explain why
- Ability to notice subtle errors, inconsistencies, and gaps
- Ability to follow guidelines and quality standards consistently
- Ability to explain reasoning clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to adapt across projects, task types, and customers
- Applicants must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support
- Independent contractor status
- Nice-to-have: adversarial ML experience, including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, and model extraction
- Nice-to-have: cybersecurity experience, including penetration testing, exploit development, and reverse engineering
- Nice-to-have: socio-technical risk experience, including harassment/disinformation probing, abuse analysis, and conversational AI testing
- Nice-to-have: psychology, acting, or writing experience for unconventional adversarial thinking
Benefits:
- Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule
- Participation in higher-sensitivity projects is optional
- Clear guidelines and wellness resources for sensitive-content projects
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Competitive pay
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral payments of up to $90 for each successful referral, subject to limits
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Opportunity to build experience in human data-driven AI red teaming
- Independent contractor engagement









