AI Safety Experts — English & Marathi

Neon; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a remote Red Team Specialist to probe conversational AI systems for jailbreaks, prompt injections, and vulnerabilities. You will generate high-quality human data, annotate failures, and document findings to strengthen safety.

The role requires native English and Marathi fluency and a disciplined, guidelines-driven approach to testing. You will work across projects, maintain reproducible reports, and contribute to playbooks that standardize evaluation.

Qualifications

• Native fluency in English and Marathi is required.
• Ability to assess AI outputs for accuracy and safety.
• Structured and guideline-driven with strong attention to detail.
• Able to explain reasoning clearly to varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models: jailbreaks, prompts, misuse cases, bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures and flagging vulnerabilities.
• Document tests and results with reproducible reports and datasets.
• Follow taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to keep testing consistent.

Skills

English

Marathi

Adversarial ML

Cybersecurity

Job description

Location: Remote

Fluent Language Skills Required: English & Marathi. Native fluency in English and Marathi is required for this position.

Why This Role Exists

At Mercor, we believe the safest AI is the one that is already been attacked - by us. We are assembling a red team for this project - human data experts who probe AI models with adversarial inputs, surface vulnerabilities, and generate the red team data that makes AI safer for our customers.

This project involves reviewing AI outputs that touch on sensitive topics such as bias, misinformation, or harmful behaviors. All work is text-based, and participation in higher-sensitivity projects is optional and supported by clear guidelines and wellness resources. Before being exposed to any content, the topics will be clearly communicated.

What You’ll Do

• Red team conversational AI models and agents: jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, multi-turn manipulation
• Generate high-quality human data: annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks
• Apply structure: follow taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to keep testing consistent
• Document reproducibly: produce reports, datasets, and attack cases customers can act on

Who You Are

• You bring strong judgment about language and content: you can tell whether an AI response is accurate, complete, and appropriate, and explain why
• You're rigorous: you notice subtle errors, inconsistencies, and gaps that others skim past
• You're structured: you work to guidelines and quality standards consistently, not ad hoc
• You're communicative: you explain your reasoning clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• You're adaptable: you thrive moving across projects, task types, and customers

Nice-to-Have Specialties

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

What Success Looks Like

• You uncover vulnerabilities automated tests miss
• You deliver reproducible artifacts that strengthen customer AI systems
• Evaluation coverage expands: more scenarios tested, fewer surprises in production
• Mercor customers trust the safety of their AI because you've already probed it like an adversary

Why Join Mercor

• Build experience in human data-driven AI red teaming at the frontier of safety
• Play a direct role in making AI systems more robust, safe, and trustworthy