Mercor
Mercor
51 – 200 Employees
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AI Safety Expert, English and Dutch (Remote Contract)

Mercor is seeking English- and Dutch-speaking AI safety experts to red-team conversational models and agents. The work involves creating vulnerability data, attack scenarios, and reproducible safety reports for frontier AI development.

Description

  • Test conversational AI models and agents using jailbreaks, prompt injection, misuse scenarios, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Create human-generated data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and identifying systemic risks
  • Use taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to support consistent safety testing
  • Develop reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers
  • Find vulnerabilities that automated testing may overlook
  • Broaden evaluation coverage to help reduce unexpected production risks
  • Work with leading researchers to train and improve frontier AI systems

Requirements

  • Native fluency in English and Dutch
  • Previous experience with AI red teaming, cybersecurity adversarial work, or socio-technical probing
  • Ability to test AI systems adversarially and drive them toward failure conditions
  • Experience applying frameworks or benchmarks to structured testing
  • Ability to communicate risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to adapt across different projects and customers
  • Adversarial machine learning experience with jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, or model extraction is preferred
  • Cybersecurity experience in penetration testing, exploit development, or reverse engineering is preferred
  • Socio-technical risk experience involving harassment or disinformation probing, abuse analysis, or conversational AI testing is preferred
  • Creative probing experience in psychology, acting, or writing is preferred
  • Must be able to work as an independent contractor
  • H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits

  • Fully remote work
  • Flexible scheduling with the ability to set your own hours
  • Weekly payments through Stripe or Wise based on services delivered
  • Projects may be extended, shortened, or ended early based on business needs and performance
  • Participation in higher-sensitivity projects is optional
  • Content guidelines and wellness resources are provided
  • Reasonable accommodations are available upon request
  • Competitive hourly pay
  • Referral opportunity of up to $250 per successful referral, subject to limits

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