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 & Vietnamese Type:

Contract Compensation:

$17–$25/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 maintain 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

Native fluency in

English

and

Vietnamese .

Prior red teaming experience in

AI adversarial work ,

cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing.

Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Adaptability to thrive across projects and customers.

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.

📌 AI Safety Specialist (Sydney)
🏢 Mercor
📍 Sydney