AI Safety Expert - Red Team

About The Job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: AI Safety Experts — English & Punjabi
Type: Contract
Compensation: $20–$22/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks. Ensure consistent testing.
Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.
Qualifications
Must-Have
Fluent Language Skills Required: English & Punjabi. Native fluency in English and Punjabi is required.
Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Adaptability to move across projects and customers.
Preferred
Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
Socio-technical risk expertise: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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