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

Mercor is seeking a contract AI Safety Red Teamer to challenge frontier AI models and uncover vulnerabilities. The role focuses on high-risk domains and supports the development of safer, more reliable AI systems.

Description

  • Create adversarial prompts that rigorously challenge frontier AI models
  • Detect jailbreaks, unsafe behavior, hallucinations, and failures to follow safety policies
  • Assess model resilience across misinformation, cybersecurity, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive areas
  • Record discovered weaknesses and support safety benchmarks and red-teaming reports
  • Work with AI researchers to advance model alignment, robustness, and safety
  • Help protect and improve emerging frontier AI systems
  • Shape how AI models handle difficult safety scenarios in real-world contexts

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 judgment, prompt-development ability, and written communication skills
  • Hands-on experience creating adversarial prompts or assessing frontier AI systems
  • Preferred: background in AI red teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI alignment, or trust and safety
  • Preferred: familiarity with jailbreak assessments, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methods
  • Preferred: expertise in nuanced areas such as cybersecurity, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety
  • Availability to work as an independent contractor
  • H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits

  • Work fully remotely
  • Set your own working hours and complete assignments on a flexible schedule
  • Receive weekly payments through Stripe or Wise
  • Project duration may change or end early based on business needs and performance
  • Competitive compensation
  • Work alongside leading AI researchers and safety teams
  • Reasonable accommodations are available upon request
  • Referral program offering up to $340 for each successful referral, subject to referral limits

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