AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $62/hr
- 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 & Danish
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 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
- Fluent in English and Danish.
- Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
- Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
- Experience in Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, or socio-technical risk analysis.
- Skills in creative probing such as psychology, acting, or 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 probe conversational AI models for jailbreaks, prompt injections and misuse, then annotate failures and classify vulnerabilities. They will follow set taxonomies and produce clear, reproducible reports and datasets.
Requirements
Candidates need fluency in English and Danish 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 audiences are required.
Skills
- Red teaming
- Jailbreak testing
- Prompt injection
- Adversarial testing
- Vulnerability classification
- Data annotation
- Bias exploitation testing
- Risk analysis
- Technical report writing
- Reproducible documentation
- Taxonomy-based testing
- Adversarial machine learning
- Cybersecurity
- Socio-technical probing
- Stakeholder communication
- English
- Danish
Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Science & Research
Keywords
- AI safety
- red teaming
- red team
- jailbreak
- prompt injection
- adversarial testing
- AI adversarial
- misuse testing
- bias testing
- LLM evaluation
- conversational AI
- AI red teamer
- adversarial machine learning
- cybersecurity
- socio-technical risk
- data annotation
- vulnerability classification
- Danish
- bilingual English Danish
- remote contract
Languages
- English