AI Safety Expert - Red Team

mercor; Indonesia; Remote; IDR 418,948,000 - 616,100,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking AI Safety Experts who work remotely to assess and stress-test conversational AI systems. The role requires fluency in English and Indonesian and experience in red teaming or cybersecurity to reveal vulnerabilities and risks.

The contractor will generate quality data, document findings, and develop reproducible attack cases for customers. Strong communication to diverse stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Indonesian.
• Previous red teaming experience in AI adversarial work or cybersecurity.
• Ability to explain risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents, focusing on jailbreaks and prompt injections.
• Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
• Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks for testing consistency.
• Document reproducibly with reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers.

Skills

Fluent English

Fluent Indonesian

Red teaming experience

Ability to explain risks clearly

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 & Indonesian

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 using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain testing consistency.
• Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Fluent in English & Indonesian.
• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
• Ability to explain risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, and socio-technical risk analysis.
• Skills in creative probing : psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.