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

Mercor is seeking a contract AI safety expert fluent in English and Gujarati to red-team frontier AI models. The work involves testing vulnerabilities, evaluating failures, and creating reproducible datasets and attack cases.

Description

  • Test conversational AI models and agents for jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse scenarios, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Create human-generated data by annotating failures, categorizing vulnerabilities, and identifying systemic risks
  • Use established taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to conduct consistent evaluations
  • Develop reproducible customer reports, datasets, and attack cases
  • Assess AI outputs for sensitive issues including bias, misinformation, and harmful behavior
  • Find weaknesses that automated testing does not detect
  • Broaden evaluation coverage to help prevent unexpected production issues
  • Contribute to projects that train and improve frontier AI systems

Requirements

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

Benefits

  • Work remotely from the United States
  • Choose a flexible schedule that suits your availability
  • Receive weekly payments through Stripe or Wise
  • Opt in or out of higher-sensitivity projects
  • Access clear guidance and wellness resources for sensitive-content assignments
  • Competitive hourly compensation
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request
  • Opportunity to earn up to $90 per successful referral, subject to applicable limits

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