AI Safety Specialist

Mercor
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. As an AI Safety Specialist, you will be responsible for red teaming conversational AI models and agents, generating high-quality human data, and applying structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks.

What You Will Do

Conduct jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks. Document reproducibly and produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will thrive on moving across projects and customers, and have strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Fluent in English and Punjabi
  • Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing)
  • Strong communication skills
  • Adaptable
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