AI Safety Expert - Red Team
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$29 to $45 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $29 to $45 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 & Portuguese (global)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $29–$45/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation.
- Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
- Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
- Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
- Work independently and asynchronously. Participate in optional higher-sensitivity projects with clear guidelines and wellness resources.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native fluency in English and Portuguese (global, excluding Brazilian Portuguese).
- 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.
- Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Socio-technical risk expertise: 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 probe conversational AI models for failures such as jailbreaks and manipulation. They will annotate and classify vulnerabilities and write reproducible reports that customers can act on.
Requirements
Candidates need native fluency in English and Portuguese, prior red teaming or adversarial AI, cybersecurity or socio-technical probing experience, and strong communication skills. Adversarial ML, penetration testing and conversational AI testing are preferred.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Adversarial machine learning
- Jailbreak datasets
- Prompt injection
- RLHF/DPO attacks
- Model extraction
- Penetration testing
- Exploit development
- Reverse engineering
- Conversational AI testing
- Socio-technical risk analysis
- Harassment and disinfo probing
- Abuse analysis
- Data annotation
- Vulnerability classification
- Risk reporting
- Taxonomies and benchmarks
- Creative adversarial thinking
- Written communication
- Independent asynchronous work
Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software
Keywords
- AI red teaming
- AI safety
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- adversarial machine learning
- LLM testing
- conversational AI
- penetration testing
- RLHF
- DPO
- model extraction
- bias testing
- misuse analysis
- data annotation
- vulnerability classification
- contract
- remote
- Portuguese
- English
- Mercor
Languages
- English
- Portuguese