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

Conduct adversarial testing of Mercor’s frontier AI models using English and Kannada inputs to identify vulnerabilities. Create reproducible safety data, attack cases, and reports for AI customers.

USUnited States
$16 – $22 / hour
RemoteContractMiddleSeniorEnglish RequiredKannada RequiredArtificial Intelligence
Cyber Security

Description

  • Test conversational AI models and agents with 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 maintain consistent evaluations
  • Develop reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can use
  • Assess AI outputs on sensitive subjects, including bias, misinformation, and harmful behavior
  • Find weaknesses that automated evaluations may overlook
  • Broaden evaluation coverage to help prevent unexpected production issues
  • Contribute to projects that train and improve AI systems for Mercor’s AI lab and enterprise customers

Requirements

  • Native or fluent proficiency in both English and Kannada
  • Sound judgment when assessing language and content, including AI response accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness
  • Ability to communicate reasoning clearly with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Careful attention to subtle mistakes, inconsistencies, and omissions
  • Ability to consistently apply taxonomies, benchmarks, playbooks, guidelines, and quality standards
  • Flexibility to work across different projects, task formats, and customers
  • Must work as an independent contractor
  • Applicants must not be pursuing H-1B or STEM OPT status
  • Preferred: adversarial machine learning experience with jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF or DPO attacks, or model extraction
  • Preferred: cybersecurity background in penetration testing, exploit development, or reverse engineering
  • Preferred: socio-technical risk experience, such as harassment or disinformation probing, abuse analysis, or conversational AI testing
  • Preferred: psychology, acting, or writing experience that supports unconventional adversarial thinking

Benefits

  • Fully remote contract work with scheduling flexibility
  • Weekly payment through Stripe or Wise based on services delivered
  • Opportunity to develop experience in human-data-driven AI red teaming focused on frontier safety
  • Meaningful contribution to making AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy
  • Wellness resources and defined guidance for projects involving higher-sensitivity content
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request
  • Referral payments of up to $90 per successful referral, subject to applicable restrictions

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