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AI Safety Expert - Red TeamMercor • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
AI Safety Expert - Red Team

AI Safety Expert - Red Team

Mercor • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 day ago
Salary
CA$48.00–CA$62.00 hourly
Job type
  • Part-time
  • Remote
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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 & Norwegian
Type: Contract
Compensation: $48–$62/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
  • Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
  • Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
  • Document reproducibly. 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 & Norwegian.
  • Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
  • Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to adapt and thrive across various projects and customers.

Preferred

  • Experience in Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, or Socio-technical risk.
  • Skills in jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, or model extraction.

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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