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

Probe conversational AI models for vulnerabilities through red-team testing in English and Marathi. Create reproducible datasets, attack cases, and reports for human-data AI safety projects.

Description

  • Conduct red-team testing of conversational AI models and agents using jailbreaks, prompt injection, misuse scenarios, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Create human data by annotating failures, categorizing vulnerabilities, and identifying systemic risks
  • Use taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent evaluations
  • Develop reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers
  • Assess AI outputs involving sensitive subjects, including bias, misinformation, and harmful behavior
  • Identify weaknesses that automated testing may overlook
  • Broaden evaluation coverage to help prevent unexpected production issues
  • Support customers in improving the safety, robustness, and trustworthiness of their AI systems

Requirements

  • Fluent or native English and Marathi language skills are required
  • Sound judgment about language and content, including the ability to evaluate whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate and explain the reasoning
  • Exceptional attention to subtle errors, inconsistencies, and omissions
  • Consistent adherence to established guidelines and quality standards
  • Clear communication of reasoning to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to adapt across projects, task formats, and customers
  • Must work as an independent contractor
  • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
  • Preferred: adversarial machine learning experience with jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF or 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

  • Fully remote work
  • Flexible scheduling with the ability to choose your working hours
  • Weekly payments through Stripe or Wise based on services delivered
  • Project duration may be extended, shortened, or ended early according to business needs and performance
  • Wellness resources and clear guidance for projects involving higher-sensitivity content
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request
  • Referral program offering up to $90 for each successful referral, with no limit on referrals
  • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
  • Experience conducting human-data-driven AI red teaming at the forefront of AI safety

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