AI Safety Expert – English, Tamil

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AI red-teaming contractor probing Mercor customer models for jailbreaks, bias, and misuse. Generating reproducible safety data for frontier AI labs and enterprises.

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 for customers
  • Review AI outputs involving sensitive topics such as bias, misinformation, or harmful behaviors
  • Uncover vulnerabilities that automated tests miss
  • Expand evaluation coverage and reduce production surprises
  • Strengthen customer AI systems and contribute to safer, more trustworthy AI

Requirements:

  • Fluent, native English and Tamil 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 consistently follow guidelines and quality standards
  • Ability to explain reasoning clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Adaptability across projects, task types, and customers
  • Independent contractor status
  • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates
  • 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: creative probing experience in psychology, acting, or writing

Benefits:

  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Optional participation in higher-sensitivity projects
  • Clear guidelines and wellness resources for sensitive-content projects
  • Competitive pay
  • Referral payments of up to $90 per successful referral