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

Mercor seeks an English- and Tamil-speaking AI safety expert to red-team conversational models and agents. The contract role focuses on identifying vulnerabilities, evaluating sensitive outputs, and creating reproducible safety data for frontier AI training.

Description

  • Red-team conversational AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse scenarios, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Label failures, categorize vulnerabilities, and identify systemic risks
  • Apply established taxonomies, benchmarks, and testing playbooks consistently
  • Create reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases
  • Evaluate AI outputs involving bias, misinformation, harmful behavior, and other sensitive topics
  • Broaden evaluation coverage by finding weaknesses automated testing may overlook
  • Work with project teams developing and improving frontier AI systems

Requirements

  • Native or fluent proficiency in both English and Tamil
  • Sound judgment when evaluating language and content
  • Ability to determine whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate
  • Sharp 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 across projects, task formats, and customers
  • Available to work as an independent contractor
  • Must not require H-1B or STEM OPT sponsorship
  • Preferred experience in adversarial machine learning, cybersecurity, socio-technical risk, or creative probing

Benefits

  • Work fully remotely
  • Set a flexible schedule
  • Receive weekly payments through Stripe or Wise
  • Competitive compensation
  • Gain experience in human-data-driven AI red teaming
  • Help make AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy
  • Collaborate with leading researchers
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request
  • Referral payments of up to $90 for each successful referral

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