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 & Marathi
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 for customer action.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Fluent Language Skills Required: English & Marathi. Native fluency in English and Marathi is required.
- Strong judgment about language and content accuracy.
- Rigorous attention to subtle errors and inconsistencies.
- Structured approach to guidelines and quality standards.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Adaptability across projects, task types, and customers.
Preferred
- Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
- Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
- 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 Expert at Mercor will test conversational AI models to find ways they can be misused. They will label failures, classify vulnerabilities and write clear reports and attack cases.
Requirements
Candidates need native fluency in English and Marathi, strong judgment about language accuracy and 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 attacks
- Model extraction
- Conversational AI testing
- Data annotation
- Vulnerability classification
- Taxonomy-based evaluation
- Benchmark testing
- Technical report writing
- Attack case documentation
- Penetration testing
- Exploit development
- Reverse engineering
- Socio-technical risk analysis
- Abuse analysis
- Creative adversarial thinking
- English fluency
- Marathi fluency
- Attention to detail
- Quality standards adherence
Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Science & Research
Keywords
- AI safety
- red teaming
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- adversarial ML
- RLHF
- DPO
- model extraction
- conversational AI
- AI evaluation
- data annotation
- Marathi
- English
- LLM testing
- penetration testing
- AI red team
- trust and safety
- misuse analysis
- remote contract
Languages
- English