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

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. 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 by following 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 .

Qualifications

Must-Have

- Fluent in English and Malay .

- Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work , cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing.

- Strong communication skills 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.

- Knowledge in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.

- Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

- Upload resume

- AI interview based on your resume

- Submit form

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