AI Safety Expert – English, Tamil
Posted 17hrs ago
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Job Description
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






