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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 & Indonesian
Type:Contract
Compensation:$17–$25/hour
Location:Remote
Role Responsibilities
Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
Qualifications
Must-Have
Fluent in English and Indonesian.
Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
Knowledge of socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
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Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.