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AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $62/hr

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Fluent in English & Dutch
  • Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing
  • Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

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 ensure consistent testing
  • Document reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Creative Questioning
  • Time Management

About the company

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Mercor

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Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $2 million a day.

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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 & Dutch
Type: Contract
Compensation: $48–$62/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 ensure 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

  • Fluent in English & Dutch.
  • 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 with Adversarial ML, cybersecurity, and socio-technical risk.
  • Skills in creative probing such as psychology, acting, or 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.

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