AI Safety Red Teamer

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About the role

  • AI Safety Red Teamer stress-testing Mercor’s frontier AI models. Identifying vulnerabilities, jailbreaks, hallucinations, and policy failures through adversarial evaluation.

Responsibilities

  • Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models
  • Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviours, hallucinations, and policy failures
  • Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains
  • Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports
  • Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety
  • Work on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or a related discipline
  • 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or a related field
  • Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication skills
  • Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems
  • Preferred: experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI Alignment, or Trust & Safety
  • Preferred: familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies
  • Preferred: expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety
  • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship

Benefits

  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible schedule / work can be completed on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
  • Competitive pay
  • Opportunity to collaborate with leading AI researchers and safety teams
  • Opportunity to influence next-generation AI systems
  • Referral payments of up to $340 per successful referral

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$70 - $84 per hour

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Cyber Security

Location requirements

RemoteNorth America

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