AI Safety Expert – English, Telugu
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Job Description
AI safety red teamer probing conversational models for Mercor’s human-data AI training projects. Generating reproducible vulnerability data to strengthen frontier AI systems.
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 for customers
- Probe AI outputs involving bias, misinformation, and harmful behaviors
- Uncover vulnerabilities automated tests miss
- Expand evaluation coverage and reduce surprises in production
- Strengthen customer AI systems through adversarial testing
Requirements:
- Fluent/native fluency in English and Telugu required
- Strong judgment about language and content, including assessing 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 consistently follow 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 specialties include adversarial ML, cybersecurity, socio-technical risk, creative probing, penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering, jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction, harassment/disinformation probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing, psychology, acting, or writing
Benefits:
- Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Participation in higher-sensitivity projects is optional
- Clear content guidelines and wellness resources for higher-sensitivity projects
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Opportunity to build experience in human data-driven AI red teaming
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Referral payments of up to $90 for each successful referral




