AI Red Team Specialist - Remote | Upto $22/hr

mercor; India; Remote; INR 2,670,000 - 2,937,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking AI Safety Experts to remotely contribute on a contract basis. You will red-team conversational AI models, identify jailbreaks, and annotate failures to surface vulnerabilities and risks.

Fluency in English and Marathi is required, with prior adversarial AI or cybersecurity experience. You will document findings and communicate risks clearly to diverse stakeholders, thriving across multiple customers and projects.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Marathi required.
• Prior red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing) experience preferred.
• Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable and able to thrive across projects and customers.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
• Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Skills

English proficiency

Marathi proficiency

Red team experience

Risk communication

Adaptability

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 &Marathi Type: Contract Compensation: $20–$22/hour Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.


• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.


• Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.


• Document reproducibly by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Fluent in English and Marathi.


• Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).


• Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Adaptable and able to thrive across projects and customers.

Preferred

• Experience with Adversarial ML : jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.


• Background in Cybersecurity : 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.