AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $45/hr

🏢 mercor · all jobs
📍 United States
💰 USD 29 - 45 / hour
📅 Posted Aug 13, 2026 · via Himalayas
🏷 AI Safety Specialist, Red Teamer, AI Safety Researcher, Prompt Engineer, AI Security Specialist, AI Safety Analyst +3 more
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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 & Portuguese (global)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $29–$45/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities

- Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing 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 maintain consistent testing.

- Document reproducibly by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.

- Work independently and asynchronously to improve AI model performance and ensure safety.

Qualifications

Must-Have

- Native fluency in English and Portuguese (global, excluding Brazilian Portuguese).

- 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.

- Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.

- Socio-technical risk expertise: 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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- For any help or support, reach out to:

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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