AI Safety Expert, English – Tamil
Posted 22hrs ago
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Job Description
AI red-teaming experts probing conversational models for Mercor, which partners with AI labs to train frontier systems. Testing vulnerabilities and generating actionable human safety data.
Responsibilities:
- Red-team conversational AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
- Generate high-quality 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, and harmful behaviors
- Uncover vulnerabilities that automated tests miss
- Expand evaluation coverage and reduce production surprises
- Help customers strengthen the safety, robustness, and trustworthiness of AI systems
Requirements:
- Fluent/native fluency in English and Tamil is required
- Strong judgment about language and content
- Ability to evaluate whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate
- Ability to explain reasoning clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Rigorous attention to subtle errors, inconsistencies, and gaps
- Ability to work consistently with guidelines and quality standards
- Adaptability across projects, task types, and customers
- Independent contractor status
- Must not be an H1-B or STEM OPT candidate
- 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
- Flexible schedule; work can be completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Competitive pay
- Higher-sensitivity project participation is optional
- Clear content guidelines and wellness resources
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral payments of up to $90 per successful referral


