Mercor
Mercor
51 – 200 Employees
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AI Safety Red Teamer - Remote Contract (United States)

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer to uncover vulnerabilities in frontier AI models through adversarial testing. The role involves designing prompts and assessing high-risk model behavior with AI safety researchers.

Description

  • Create adversarial prompts to challenge frontier AI models
  • Detect jailbreaks, unsafe behavior, hallucinations, and policy violations
  • Assess model robustness across misinformation, cybersecurity, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive areas
  • Record vulnerabilities and support safety benchmarks and red-teaming reports
  • Partner with AI researchers to strengthen model alignment, robustness, 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 written communication abilities
  • Background creating adversarial prompts or assessing frontier AI systems
  • Preferred experience in 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 gray-area domains such as cybersecurity, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety
  • Ability to work as an independent contractor
  • H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits

  • Fully remote work
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Weekly payments through Stripe or Wise
  • Projects may be extended, shortened, or ended early based on business needs and performance
  • Adversarial testing work with leading AI researchers and safety teams
  • Opportunity to shape how AI systems handle complex, real-world safety challenges
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request
  • Referral payments of up to $340 per successful referral, subject to referral limits

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