AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $22/hr
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$16 to $22 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $16 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 & Gujarati
Type: Contract
Compensation: $16–$22/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents by identifying 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 maintain 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
- Native fluency in English and Gujarati.
- Strong judgment about language and content accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness.
- Rigorous attention to detail, noticing subtle errors and inconsistencies.
- Ability to work to guidelines and quality standards consistently.
- Clear communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Adaptability across projects, task types, and customers.
Preferred
- Experience with Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
- Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Understanding of socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
- Skills in creative probing: 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 Specialist at Mercor will test AI chatbots and agents by trying to break them. They will label failures, follow set testing guidelines and write clear reports that customers can act on.
Requirements
Candidates need native fluency in English and Gujarati, strong attention to detail and sound judgment about language and content. Clear communication and the ability to follow quality standards are also required.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Jailbreak identification
- Prompt injection
- Adversarial ML
- RLHF
- DPO
- Model extraction
- Data annotation
- Vulnerability classification
- Bias exploitation testing
- Taxonomy-based testing
- Technical report writing
- Reproducible documentation
- Gujarati language
- English language
- Attention to detail
- Content accuracy review
- Asynchronous work
- Creative adversarial probing
- Penetration testing
- Exploit development
- Reverse engineering
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- AI safety
- red teaming
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- adversarial machine learning
- RLHF
- DPO
- model extraction
- AI evaluation
- data annotation
- bias testing
- conversational AI
- Gujarati
- English
- remote contract
- penetration testing
- cybersecurity
- AI red team
- human data
- AI training data
Languages
- English
- Gujarati