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 & Telugu
Type: Contract
Compensation: $16–$22/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
- 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 enhancing AI model safety.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Fluent in English and Telugu.
- Strong judgment about language and content accuracy.
- Rigorous attention to detail and consistency.
- Ability to explain reasoning clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Adaptability across projects, task types, and customers.
Preferred
- Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
- Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Understanding of socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
- Creative probing skills: 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 chatbots and AI agents to find ways they can be misused, then label and document the failures. The work follows set testing guidelines and is done independently on deadlines.
Requirements
Candidates need fluency in English and Telugu, sound judgment about language and content accuracy, and strong attention to detail. Adversarial ML, cybersecurity or socio-technical risk experience is preferred.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Jailbreak testing
- Prompt injection
- Adversarial machine learning
- RLHF
- DPO
- Model extraction
- Conversational AI testing
- Data annotation
- Vulnerability classification
- Risk taxonomy application
- Technical report writing
- Penetration testing
- Exploit development
- Reverse engineering
- Harassment and disinformation probing
- Abuse analysis
- Creative adversarial thinking
- English
- Telugu
- Attention to detail
- Asynchronous work
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- AI safety
- red teaming
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- adversarial machine learning
- RLHF
- DPO
- model extraction
- LLM evaluation
- AI red team
- conversational AI testing
- penetration testing
- exploit development
- reverse engineering
- Telugu
- bilingual
- data annotation
- remote contract
- AI training data
- trust and safety
Languages
- English