What the work actually involves

You write prompts in Belgian Dutch — Flemish usage, not Netherlands Dutch — that probe how a model handles sensitive or dual-use subject matter, then classify prompts and model conversations against a written guideline set. A typical session mixes authoring (produce a set of prompts on a given theme, at a given difficulty or adversarial register) with review (read a conversation, apply the taxonomy, and write a short justification that another reviewer could audit). The written reasoning matters as much as the label: annotators who tag correctly but cannot explain why tend to wash out during calibration.

Adversarial phrasing is central. That includes euphemism, dialect and regional slang, code-switching between Dutch, French and English as Belgian speakers actually do it, indirect framings, and multi-turn escalation where each individual message looks benign. Part of your value is knowing what a Flemish speaker would recognise as a coded request that a Netherlands-Dutch or machine-translated reference would miss.

What the screen looks for

Mercor's screening is AI-led and follow-up heavy. Expect it to test three things: that your Belgian Dutch is genuinely native or near-native (not schoolroom Dutch, not Netherlands Dutch), that your written English is clear enough for guideline-grade justifications, and that your judgment around sensitive and dual-use topics is calibrated — neither refusing to engage with the material nor treating harmful specificity casually. Location in Belgium is a hard gate here, because a separate project covers Netherlands Dutch. A completed or in-progress bachelor's degree is required. Trust-and-safety, moderation, policy-evaluation or red-teaming experience is a plus, not a prerequisite.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, asynchronous, self-scheduled within task deadlines.
  • Part-time: roughly 7 hours per week, immediate start.
  • Observed pay band $48–52/hr; rates are set per project and not guaranteed.
  • Training on the annotation workflow is provided; the domain judgment is expected to be yours already.