AI Safety Red Team Specialist — Remote

mercor; Pakistan; Remote; PKR 7,628,000 - 8,391,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. We are hiring AI Safety Experts (English & Urdu) for a remote contract role with hourly compensation of $20–$22.

Based out of San Francisco with strong investor backing, Mercor seeks skilled testers to strengthen model safety across international teams. The role involves red-teaming AI systems, generating data, and documenting actionable findings for clients.

Qualifications

• Native fluency in English and Urdu.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents. Conduct 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 that customers can act on.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Skills

English language

Urdu language

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. We are hiring AI Safety Experts (English & Urdu) for a remote contract role with hourly compensation of $20–$22.

Based out of San Francisco with strong investor backing, Mercor seeks skilled testers to strengthen model safety across international teams. The role involves red-teaming AI systems, generating data, and documenting actionable findings for clients.