AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $25/hr

mercor; Malaysia; Remote; MYR 96,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking AI Safety Experts — English & Malay for a remote contract role. You will red-team conversational AI models, identify jailbreaks and misuse cases, and generate high-quality human data.

Requirements include fluent English and Malay, experience in AI adversarial testing or cybersecurity, and the ability to explain risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Compensation is $17–$25 per hour.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Malay.
• Red-teaming experience in AI adversarial work or cybersecurity.
• Ability to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Red team AI models to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
• Annotate failures and classify vulnerabilities to generate high-quality data.
• Apply taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases.
• Review AI outputs on sensitive topics like bias and misinformation; optional higher-sensitivity projects.

Skills

English fluency

Malay fluency

Red-team experience

Risk communication

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 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 ensure consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
• Review AI outputs on sensitive topics such as bias and misinformation, with optional participation in higher-sensitivity projects.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Fluent Language Skills Required: English & Malay
• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work , cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
• Ability 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.
• Expertise in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.