AI Safety Expert - Red Team
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$20 to $22 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $20 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 & Urdu
Type: Contract
Compensation: $20–$22/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents. Conduct jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
- Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
- Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain testing consistency.
- Document reproducibly. Produce 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 Urdu.
- Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
- Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
- Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
- Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Expertise in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
- Creative probing skills in psychology, acting, or 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.
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Responsibilities
The AI Safety Expert at Mercor will test chatbots and AI agents by trying to make them fail or behave unsafely. They will label the failures, record them in clear reports and datasets, and work on their own to meet deadlines.
Requirements
Candidates need native fluency in English and Urdu, prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity or socio-technical probing, and strong communication skills. Experience with adversarial machine learning or penetration testing is preferred.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Jailbreak testing
- Prompt injection
- Adversarial machine learning
- RLHF
- DPO
- Model extraction
- Conversational AI testing
- Bias exploitation
- Misuse analysis
- Vulnerability classification
- Data annotation
- Risk flagging
- Penetration testing
- Exploit development
- Reverse engineering
- Technical report writing
- Taxonomy application
- Benchmark testing
- Urdu language
- English language
- Asynchronous work
- Stakeholder communication
Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software
Keywords
- AI red teaming
- AI safety
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- adversarial ML
- RLHF
- DPO
- model extraction
- conversational AI testing
- penetration testing
- exploit development
- reverse engineering
- bias testing
- misuse analysis
- disinformation probing
- harassment probing
- taxonomy
- benchmarking
- red team
- LLM evaluation
Languages
- English
- Urdu