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 & Portuguese (global)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $29-$45/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

- Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
- 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 by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
- Work independently and asynchronously to improve AI model performance and ensure safety.





Qualifications

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 .
- Robust communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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.

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📌 Ai Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $45/Hr (Townsville)
🏢 Mercor
📍 Townsville