AI Safety Expert – English, Tamil

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $16 - $22 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

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📋 Description

• Red-team conversational AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation • Generate human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks • Apply taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to keep testing consistent • Produce reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers • Review AI outputs involving sensitive topics such as bias, misinformation, and harmful behaviors • Uncover vulnerabilities automated tests miss • Expand evaluation coverage and reduce production surprises • Strengthen customer AI systems and support safer, more trustworthy AI

🎯 Requirements

• Native fluency in English and Tamil is required • Strong judgment about language and content • Ability to assess whether AI responses are accurate, complete, and appropriate, and explain why • Rigorous attention to subtle errors, inconsistencies, and gaps • Ability to consistently follow guidelines and quality standards • Ability to explain reasoning clearly to technical and non-technical audiences • Adaptability across projects, task types, and customers • Nice-to-have: adversarial ML experience, including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, or model extraction • Nice-to-have: cybersecurity experience, including penetration testing, exploit development, or reverse engineering • Nice-to-have: socio-technical risk experience, including harassment/disinformation probing, abuse analysis, or conversational AI testing • Nice-to-have: creative probing experience in psychology, acting, or writing • Must be engaged as an independent contractor • H1-B or STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Competitive pay • Opportunity to build experience in human data-driven AI red teaming at the frontier of safety • Direct role in making AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy • Higher-sensitivity projects are optional • Clear guidelines and wellness resources for sensitive-content projects • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral opportunity paying up to $90 per successful referral (referral limits apply)