AI Safety Expert – English, Tamil
Posted 16hrs ago
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Job Description
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


