AI Safety Expert - Red Teaming
- 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. 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 consistent testing.
- Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Fluent in English and Punjabi.
- Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
- Strong communication skills. Explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptable. Thrive on moving across projects and customers.
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 abilities: 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 conversational AI models by trying to break them, such as through jailbreaks and prompt injections. They will record failures, classify vulnerabilities and write reproducible reports for the customer.
Requirements
Candidates need fluency in English and Punjabi, prior red teaming experience (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity or socio-technical probing), strong communication skills and adaptability across projects.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Jailbreak testing
- Prompt injection
- Adversarial machine learning
- RLHF
- DPO
- Model extraction
- Conversational AI testing
- Penetration testing
- Exploit development
- Reverse engineering
- Vulnerability classification
- Bias exploitation
- Abuse analysis
- Harassment and disinformation probing
- Human data annotation
- Taxonomy and benchmark application
- Technical report writing
- Risk communication
- English
- Punjabi
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- AI safety
- red teaming
- red team
- AI red teaming
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- adversarial machine learning
- adversarial ML
- RLHF
- DPO
- model extraction
- conversational AI
- LLM testing
- AI evaluation
- penetration testing
- cybersecurity
- bias testing
- misuse analysis
- Punjabi
- bilingual
Languages
- English
- Punjabi