AI Safety Specialist Fully Remote

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: AI Safety Experts English & Vietnamese
Type: Contract
Compensation: $17$25/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 to produce 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 Vietnamese.
• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work cybersecurity or socio-technical probing.
• Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability to thrive 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 skills: psychology acting writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
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