Mercor
Mercor
51 – 200 Employees
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AI Safety Red Teamer

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer to probe advanced AI systems with adversarial prompts. The role involves documenting risks and working with researchers to strengthen model safety and alignment.

Description

  • Create adversarial prompts to test advanced AI models
  • Find jailbreaks, unsafe outputs, hallucinations, and policy gaps
  • Assess model resilience across sensitive areas such as misinformation, cybersecurity, biosecurity, fraud, and political content
  • Record vulnerabilities and help produce safety benchmarks and red-teaming reports
  • Work with AI researchers to strengthen model alignment, resilience, and safety
  • Contribute to projects that train and improve AI systems

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, cybersecurity, journalism, communications, psychology, biology, chemistry, public policy, or a related field
  • At least five years of professional experience in AI safety, AI red teaming, trust and safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or a related area
  • Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and writing skills
  • Experience creating adversarial prompts or assessing advanced AI systems
  • Preferred: Background in AI red teaming, RLHF, supervised fine-tuning, AI alignment, or trust and safety
  • Preferred: Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methods
  • Preferred: Expertise in nuanced areas such as cybersecurity, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety
  • Must be able to work as an independent contractor
  • H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with a flexible schedule
  • Weekly payments through Stripe or Wise for services provided
  • Project duration may be extended, shortened, or ended early based on needs and performance
  • Competitive compensation
  • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers and safety teams
  • Reasonable accommodations are available upon request
  • Referral incentive of up to $340 per successful referral, subject to limits

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