AI Safety Expert - Red Team
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$48 to $62 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $48 to $62 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 & Swedish
Type: Contract
Compensation: $48–$62/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify 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 ensure 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
- Fluent in English and Swedish.
- 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 with Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, and Socio-technical risk.
- Skills in Creative probing such as psychology, acting, or 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 record and classify each failure and write clear reports and attack cases for customers.
Requirements
Candidates need fluency in English and Swedish and prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity or socio-technical probing. Strong communication skills for explaining risks to technical and non-technical people are also required.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Jailbreak testing
- Prompt injection
- Adversarial machine learning
- Bias exploitation testing
- Failure annotation
- Vulnerability classification
- Taxonomy-based testing
- Benchmark testing
- Technical report writing
- Reproducible documentation
- Dataset creation
- Risk communication
- Creative adversarial thinking
- Swedish language
- English language
- Asynchronous work
- Cybersecurity
Categories
- Technology
- Security & Safety
- Data & Analytics
- Software
Keywords
- AI red teaming
- AI safety
- adversarial testing
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- LLM security
- AI misuse
- bias testing
- model evaluation
- vulnerability classification
- adversarial machine learning
- cybersecurity
- socio-technical risk
- red team
- Swedish
- bilingual English Swedish
- contract
- remote
- AI data annotation
- taxonomy
Languages
- English