AI Safety Specialist

2 days ago

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan mercor Remote Full-time PKR 7.63 - PKR 8.39/year

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 .

Role

Position: AI Safety Experts — English & Punjabi
Type: Contract
Compensation: $20–$22/hour
Location: Remote

Role 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 consistent testing.
  • Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Qualifications Must-Have

  • Fluent in English and Punjabi.
  • Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
  • Strong communication skills. Explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Adaptable. Thrive on moving across projects and customers.

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 abilities: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Originally posted on Himalayas