AI Safety Red Teamer stress - testing Mercor’s frontier AI models. Identifying vulnerabilities, jailbreaks, hallucinations, and policy failures through adversarial evaluation.
About the role
- Forward Deployed Engineer working with internal teams to design and optimize workflows leveraging AI at Knak. Collaborating closely with DevOps to build internal tools and systems.
Responsibilities
- Partner with cross-functional internal teams and DevOps to conceptualize, build, and deploy internal tools and workflows that leverage AI to streamline processes
- Develop user-friendly, high-performance internal web applications using Laravel (PHP) and TypeScript for microservices
- Deploy, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure using AWS (specifically AWS CDK)
- Collaborate with internal teams to maintain, optimize, and take ownership of our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Develop and optimize RESTful API endpoints and effectively manage SQL databases through query optimization and optimal indexing
- Implement monitoring and performance tracking (e.g., Datadog) and execute plans to ensure the continued security of our cloud environments
- Actively participate in code reviews, champion clean architecture, and provide constructive mentorship to peers
Requirements
- Experience in software development and DevOps/Cloud infrastructure
- Solid understanding of JavaScript frameworks (specifically Vue.js, but React/Angular experience translates well)
- Strong experience with Node.js/TypeScript, alongside familiarity with PHP and the Laravel framework
- Proven track record building applications with Docker, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub
- Strong experience with SQL and relational data modeling
- Experience with TDD/automated testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright, PHPUnit) and building Datadog dashboards
- Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, and SaaS release concepts
- Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to work closely with internal stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Equity in the company
- Great benefits
- Paid vacation
- Life leave days
- Team lunches and off-sites
- Commitment to career growth
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