Ai Adversarial Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $25/Hr

Mercor; Sydney; Remote; AUD 33,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking AI Safety Experts to perform red-teaming on AI models and safety systems. This contract role requires fluency in English and Malay, experience in AI adversarial tasks, and strong communication to explain risks to diverse stakeholders. Remote work supported with structured interview and resume-based evaluation. Opportunity to contribute to high-impact AI safety initiatives.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Malay.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents focusing on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data; annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
• Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain testing consistency.
• Document reproducibly; produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Skills

English

Malay

Red teaming

Communication

Tools

Adversarial ML tools

Penetration testing

Reverse engineering

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 & Malay
Type: Contract
Compensation: $17–$25/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 by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain testing consistency.
• 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 and Malay.
• 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.

Preferred

• Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
• Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Knowledge in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

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: [e-mail]

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.