AI Safety Expert – English, Tamil

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AI red-team contractor probing conversational models for Mercor, which helps AI labs and enterprises train frontier systems. Testing jailbreaks, vulnerabilities, and harmful behaviors through structured human data.

Responsibilities:

  • Red-team conversational AI models and agents through 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
  • Review AI outputs involving sensitive topics such as bias, misinformation, and harmful behaviors
  • Expand evaluation coverage and uncover vulnerabilities automated tests miss
  • Help Mercor’s AI-lab and enterprise customers train and enhance frontier AI models

Requirements:

  • Fluent/native English and Tamil required
  • Strong judgment about language and content; ability to assess whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate
  • Ability to identify subtle errors, inconsistencies, and gaps
  • Ability to follow guidelines, taxonomies, benchmarks, playbooks, and quality standards consistently
  • 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 at this time
  • Nice-to-have specialties: adversarial ML, cybersecurity, socio-technical risk, creative probing

Benefits:

  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible schedule; work on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Competitive pay
  • Wellness resources and clear guidelines for higher-sensitivity projects
  • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
  • Referral payments of up to $90 for each successful referral