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, identifying vulnerabilities through adversarial testing. Create high-quality datasets, attack cases, and clear reports focused on English and Telugu language performance.

Description

  • Test conversational AI models and agents against jailbreaks, prompt injection, misuse scenarios, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Create human-generated data by labeling failures, categorizing vulnerabilities, and identifying systemic risks
  • Use established taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent evaluations
  • Develop reproducible reports, datasets, and adversarial attack cases
  • Assess AI responses related to bias, misinformation, harmful behavior, and other sensitive subjects
  • Identify weaknesses that automated evaluation methods may overlook
  • Broaden evaluation coverage to help prevent unexpected production issues
  • Improve customer AI systems through structured adversarial testing

Requirements

  • Native-level fluency in both English and Telugu
  • Sound judgment when evaluating language and content
  • Ability to determine whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate, and to explain the reasoning
  • Exceptional attention to subtle errors, inconsistencies, and omissions
  • Consistent adherence to guidelines and quality standards
  • Ability to communicate reasoning clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Flexibility to work across different projects, task formats, and customers
  • Ability to work as an independent contractor
  • Must not require H-1B or STEM OPT sponsorship
  • Experience in adversarial machine learning, cybersecurity, sociotechnical risk, or creative probing is preferred

Benefits

  • Work fully remotely
  • Choose a flexible schedule that fits your availability
  • Receive weekly payments through Stripe or Wise
  • Project duration may change or end early based on business needs and performance
  • Access wellness resources and clear guidance for higher-sensitivity assignments
  • Build experience in human-data-driven AI red teaming
  • Help make AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy
  • Receive competitive payment
  • Collaborate with leading researchers
  • Reasonable accommodations are available upon request

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