AI Safety Experts – English, Telugu
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Job Description
AI safety red-teamer probing conversational models for Mercor’s human-data AI training projects. Generating vulnerability datasets, attack cases, and reproducible reports 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 maintain consistent testing
- Produce reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers
- Review AI outputs involving sensitive topics such as bias, misinformation, and harmful behaviors
- Uncover vulnerabilities automated tests miss
- Expand evaluation coverage and reduce production surprises
- Strengthen customer AI systems through adversarial testing
Requirements:
- Native fluency in English and Telugu
- Strong judgment about language and content; ability to assess 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 engagement
- Must not be an H1-B or STEM OPT candidate
- 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
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Higher-sensitivity project participation is optional
- Clear guidelines and wellness resources for sensitive-content work
- Competitive pay
- Collaborate with leading researchers
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral payments of up to $90 per successful referral (referral limits apply)








