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 & Punjabi
Type: Contract
Compensation: $20–$22/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on 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 consistent testing.
- Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Fluent Language Skills Required: Native fluency in English & Punjabi.
- Prior experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
- Ability to communicate risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptability to move across projects and customers.
Preferred
- Experience with Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, or Socio-technical risk.
- Skills in Creative probing such as 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.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The AI Safety Expert at Mercor will try to break conversational AI models and agents by finding failures and risks. They will record, classify and report these weaknesses in clear, reproducible documents and datasets.
Requirements
Candidates need native fluency in English and Punjabi and prior experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work, cybersecurity or socio-technical probing. They must explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical people and adapt across projects.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Prompt injection
- Jailbreaking
- Adversarial machine learning
- Conversational AI evaluation
- Bias exploitation
- Misuse case analysis
- Vulnerability classification
- Data annotation
- Taxonomy-based testing
- Benchmarking
- Reproducible reporting
- Risk communication
- Cybersecurity
- Socio-technical risk assessment
- Creative adversarial probing
- English
- Punjabi
Categories
- Technology
- Security & Safety
- Data & Analytics
- Software
Keywords
- AI safety
- red teaming
- red team
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- adversarial machine learning
- AI adversarial testing
- misuse testing
- bias testing
- cybersecurity
- socio-technical risk
- LLM evaluation
- AI red teaming
- Punjabi
- bilingual English Punjabi
- data annotation
- vulnerability assessment
- contract remote AI trainer
Languages
- English
- Punjabi