AI Safety Expert - Adversarial ML
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$16 to $22 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $16 to $22 CAD / hour
- Workplace
- Remote
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: AI Safety Experts - English & Gujarati
Type: Contract
Compensation: $16–$22/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents by identifying jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
- Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
- Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
- Document reproducibly by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native fluency in English and Gujarati.
- Strong judgment about language and content accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness.
- Rigorous attention to detail, noticing subtle errors and inconsistencies.
- Ability to work to guidelines and quality standards consistently.
- Clear communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Adaptability across projects, task types, and customers.
Preferred
- Experience with Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
- Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Understanding of socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
- Skills in creative probing: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The AI Safety Expert at Mercor will test AI chatbots and agents by trying to make them fail or misbehave. They will label the failures, record the problems they find, and write clear reports that the customer can use.
Requirements
Candidates need native fluency in English and Gujarati, strong attention to detail, and the ability to follow guidelines consistently. Experience in adversarial machine learning or cybersecurity is preferred.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Jailbreak testing
- Prompt injection
- Adversarial machine learning
- RLHF
- DPO
- Model extraction
- Data annotation
- Vulnerability classification
- Technical report writing
- Penetration testing
- Exploit development
- Reverse engineering
- Conversational AI testing
- Bias exploitation
- Gujarati language
- English language
- Attention to detail
- Taxonomy-based testing
- Asynchronous work
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- AI safety
- red teaming
- adversarial machine learning
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- RLHF
- DPO
- model extraction
- penetration testing
- exploit development
- reverse engineering
- AI evaluation
- conversational AI testing
- data annotation
- bias testing
- Gujarati
- English
- remote contract
- AI red team
- LLM safety
Languages
- English
- Gujarati