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AI Safety Red Teamer

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer to probe frontier models for jailbreaks, hallucinations, and policy failures. The company partners with AI labs to train and improve AI systems.

USUnited States
$70 – $84 / hour
RemoteContractMiddleSeniorEnglish RequiredArtificial Intelligence
Cyber Security

Description

  • Create adversarial prompts to test frontier AI models.
  • Find jailbreaks, unsafe behavior, hallucinations, and policy failures.
  • Assess model robustness in misinformation, cybersecurity, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive areas.
  • Record vulnerabilities and help produce safety benchmarks and red-teaming reports.
  • Work with AI researchers to strengthen model alignment, robustness, and safety.
  • Complete independent-contractor projects based on project needs and performance.

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 field.
  • Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and writing skills.
  • Experience creating adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems.
  • Preferred: experience with AI red teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI alignment, or trust and safety.
  • Preferred: familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methods.
  • Preferred: expertise in one or more sensitive areas, including 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 role.
  • Set your own schedule.
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise for services performed.
  • Work alongside leading AI researchers and safety teams.
  • Contribute to frontier AI safety and alignment.
  • Referral payments of up to $340 per successful referral, subject to limits.
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request.

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