Mercor
Mercor
51 – 200 Employees
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AI Safety Expert – English and Assamese | Mercor Remote Contract

Conduct adversarial testing of frontier AI models for jailbreaks, bias, misuse, and other safety risks. Create human-data annotations, vulnerability classifications, and reproducible attack evidence for Mercor customers.

Description

  • Adversarially test conversational AI models and agents for jailbreaks, prompt injection, misuse, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Create human-data annotations, classify failures, and identify systemic risks
  • Use established taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to standardize evaluations
  • Deliver reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers
  • Assess AI responses involving bias, misinformation, harmful behavior, and other sensitive topics
  • Find weaknesses that automated testing does not detect
  • Broaden evaluation coverage to help prevent unexpected production issues
  • Improve customer AI systems through structured adversarial testing

Requirements

  • Native fluency in English and Assamese
  • Sound judgment when evaluating language and content for accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness
  • Ability to detect subtle errors, inconsistencies, and omissions
  • Consistent adherence to guidelines and quality standards
  • Clear communication of reasoning to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Flexibility across projects, task formats, and customer needs
  • Preferred: adversarial machine learning experience with jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF or DPO attacks, or model extraction
  • Preferred: cybersecurity experience in penetration testing, exploit development, or reverse engineering
  • Preferred: socio-technical risk experience in harassment or disinformation probing, abuse analysis, or conversational AI testing
  • Preferred: psychology, acting, or writing experience that supports unconventional adversarial thinking
  • Must work as an independent contractor
  • H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits

  • Work fully remotely
  • Choose your own working schedule
  • Receive weekly payments through Stripe or Wise
  • Build practical experience in human-data-driven AI red teaming
  • Help make AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy
  • Work with leading researchers
  • Reasonable accommodations are available upon request
  • Earn referral payments of up to $90 for successful referrals

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