Mercor
Mercor
51 – 200 Employees
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AI Safety Red Team Expert (English and Punjabi)

Mercor is seeking an English- and Punjabi-speaking AI safety expert to red-team conversational models and agents. The contract role focuses on uncovering vulnerabilities, creating attack cases, and producing reproducible safety reports for AI research customers.

Description

  • Test conversational AI models and agents with jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse scenarios, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Evaluate model outputs on sensitive subjects, including bias, misinformation, and harmful behavior
  • Document failures, categorize vulnerabilities, and identify systemic risks
  • Use established taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent evaluations
  • Create reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers
  • Investigate AI systems for weaknesses that automated testing may overlook
  • Broaden evaluation coverage to help limit unexpected issues in production
  • Improve customer AI systems through human-led, data-driven red teaming

Requirements

  • Native or fluent English and Punjabi proficiency
  • Strong judgment when evaluating language and content
  • Ability to determine whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate, and explain the assessment
  • Meticulous attention to subtle errors, inconsistencies, and omissions
  • Consistent adherence to testing guidelines and quality standards
  • Ability to communicate reasoning clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Flexibility to work across projects, task formats, and customers
  • Availability to engage as an independent contractor
  • Must not require H-1B or STEM OPT support
  • Preferred expertise 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

  • Work remotely from anywhere permitted by the role
  • Set your own working schedule
  • Receive weekly payments through Stripe or Wise for services provided
  • Projects may be extended, reduced, or ended early based on business needs and performance
  • Access wellness resources and clear guidance for higher-sensitivity projects
  • Build experience in human data-driven AI red teaming
  • Help make AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy
  • Competitive compensation
  • Collaborate with leading AI researchers

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