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

mercor · via Himalayas ·

Budget / Salary$48–62
TypeContract
LocationIreland
Posted2 hours ago
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 & Danish
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 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

Fluent in English & Danish.

Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.

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

Ability to thrive on moving 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.

Expertise in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.

Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

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