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

Conduct red-team evaluations of conversational AI models and agents for Mercor, focusing on English and Telugu language safety. Create vulnerability data, attack cases, and reproducible reports to support safer AI development.

Description

  • Test conversational AI models and agents with jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse scenarios, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Annotate failures, categorize vulnerabilities, and identify systemic risks
  • Use taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent evaluations
  • Create reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers
  • Assess AI outputs involving bias, misinformation, harmful behavior, and other sensitive topics
  • Contribute to projects that train and improve AI systems
  • Identify vulnerabilities that automated testing does not detect
  • Broaden evaluation coverage to help reduce unexpected production issues

Requirements

  • Native or fluent English and Telugu proficiency
  • Sound judgment when evaluating whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate
  • Ability to communicate reasoning clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Meticulous attention to subtle errors, inconsistencies, and omissions
  • Consistent adherence to guidelines and quality standards
  • Flexibility across projects, task formats, and customers
  • Willingness to work as an independent contractor
  • Must not be an H-1B or STEM OPT candidate; relevant specialties may include adversarial machine learning, jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction, penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering, harassment or disinformation probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing, psychology, acting, or writing.
  • benefits

Benefits

  • Work fully remotely on a schedule you set
  • Receive weekly payments through Stripe or Wise for services rendered
  • Gain experience in human-data-driven AI red teaming focused on frontier safety
  • Help make AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy
  • Choose whether to participate in higher-sensitivity projects
  • Access clear guidance and wellness resources for higher-sensitivity projects
  • Request reasonable accommodations
  • Earn up to $90 for each successful referral, with no stated referral limit

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