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mercor

AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $45/hr

mercor
South AfricaPosted 18 days agoDiscoveredMatch locked
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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 & Portuguese (global)

Role Responsibilities

  • Red team conversational

AI models

and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation.

  • 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.
  • Work

independently and asynchronously

. Participate in optional higher-sensitivity projects with clear guidelines and wellness resources.

Must-Have

•

Native fluency in English

and

Portuguese

(global, excluding Brazilian Portuguese). •

Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work

,

cybersecurity

, or

socio-technical probing

. •

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. •

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

•

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•

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•

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•

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity. Originally posted on Himalayas

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Skills

artificial-intelligencecybersecuritymachine-learningpenetration-testing

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