AI Safety Expert – English, Telugu
Posted 14hrs ago
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Job Description
AI safety red-teamer probing conversational models for Mercor. Generating adversarial datasets and reproducible vulnerability reports to help AI labs and enterprises build safer systems.
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, and harmful behaviors
- Uncover vulnerabilities that automated tests miss
- Expand evaluation coverage and reduce production surprises
- Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems for Mercor’s AI lab and enterprise customers
Requirements:
- Fluent/native fluency in English and Telugu 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 follow guidelines 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
- H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
- 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: psychology, acting, or writing experience for unconventional adversarial thinking
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Higher-sensitivity project participation is optional
- Clear guidelines and wellness resources for sensitive-content work
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive pay
- Referral incentive of up to $90 per successful referral






