MercorMultilingual & translation
AI Safety Experts: English & Vietnamese
up to $25/hr
About this role, in Mercor's words
Fluent Language Skills Required: English & Vietnamese. Native fluency in English and Vietnamese is required for this position.
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
Candidate background
Who You Are
- You bring prior red teaming experience (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing)
- You’re curious and adversarial: you instinctively push systems to breaking points
- You’re structured: you use frameworks or benchmarks, not just random hacks
- You’re communicative: you explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You’re adaptable: thrive on moving across projects and customers
Nice-to-Have Specialties
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- 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
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Mercor's words
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Location : Remote
Fluent Language Skills Required: English & Vietnamese. Native fluency in English and Vietnamese is required for this position.
Why This Role Exists
At Mercor, we believe the safest AI is the one that’s 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 prior red teaming experience (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing)
• You’re curious and adversarial: you instinctively push systems to breaking points
• You’re structured: you use frameworks or benchmarks, not just random hacks
• You’re communicative: you explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You’re adaptable: thrive on moving across projects 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
Working with MercorPay, getting started and work, from Mercor's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Hourly work is paid every Wednesday for the previous week, through Stripe Connect or Wise, whichever Mercor assigns to your region. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. talent.docs.mercor.com/how-to/payments, talent.docs.mercor.com/policies/contracts
- Before your first paid task
- An AI interview of about 20 minutes, reused for other roles that need it, then any assessments the role asks for. Before logging hours: ID verification through Persona, a tax form, the contract documents, the Insightful time tracker, and a background check the onboarding guide says usually takes one to two weeks. talent.docs.mercor.com/support/ai-interview, talent.docs.mercor.com/how-to/apply, talent.docs.mercor.com/policies/contracts, talent.docs.mercor.com/how-to/id-verification, talent.docs.mercor.com/working/project-onboarding
- How much work
- Hearing back after the AI interview usually takes 2 to 4 weeks. When a project ends you are not moved to a new one automatically. talent.docs.mercor.com/support/ai-interview, talent.docs.mercor.com/support/project
- Contract
- Independent contractor with Mercor.io Corporation of San Francisco, which deducts no taxes. talent.docs.mercor.com/policies/taxes-work-authorization, talent.docs.mercor.com/support/legal
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
Alex's experience on MercorA personal account, not a promise about your project
Alexruns this site and has worked on Mercor himself. Written 31 Aug 2026.
- Every interview I took used an AI interviewer. They always checked my microphone and camera and asked me to share my screen, and some included a timed exercise of around 25 minutes.
- Many later applications needed no new interview from me. With the required assessments complete and no other outstanding steps, applying could be close to one click.
- The application I checked did not ask for a rate. My offer matched my minimum in Work Preferences. That does not establish that Mercor always caps higher offers at your preference.
- Onboarding and setup came to about 4 hours, with more security and tool setup. Of the three platforms I worked on, it was the most complicated for me. That is an estimate from my projects, not a platform average.
- Mercor required the Insightful tracker on my project. I observed app and website usage monitoring, and I am unsure which screenshot settings applied, so check the configuration.
- I was paid for hours logged, once every 14 days, and I have not experienced late or incorrect payments. That was my arrangement. Mercor's current documentation describes weekly payout cycles, so check your own offer.
One person's applications, not a promise about yours.
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From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from Mercor's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Multilingual & translation
Across 629 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 17 platforms, the middle half pays $20 to $50 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $35. This role's top rate, $25, is in the middle half. Of the 76 distinct rates we count, 25 are lower and 47 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Meridial (Invisible) | 310 | $20 to $65 |
| SME Careers | 64 | $15 to $60 · median $35 |
| RWS TrainAI | 52 | $10 to $36.45 · median $22 |
| Alignerr | 43 | $20 to $120 · median $80 |
| DataAnnotation | 40 | $40 |
Other open roles in Vietnamese
17 roles with a stated hourly rate in US dollars also ask for Vietnamese, on 11 platforms. Their top rates run from $11 to $200 an hour, with a median of $40.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Meridial (Invisible) | 4 | $65 |
| RWS TrainAI | 3 | $18 |
| micro1 | 2 | $200 |
| Alignerr | 1 | $120 |
| Rise Data Labs | 1 | $45 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 19 Aug 2026, and still on Mercor's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- Posted by Mercor
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- list_AAABn7GGjCWSrvaOt-lIFoB2
Pay as the source states it: “17–25 USD HOUR”.
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