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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Skills
artificial-intelligencecybersecuritymachine-learningpenetration-testing
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