AI Safety Expert, English, Portuguese

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AI safety red teamer probing Mercor’s frontier AI models for vulnerabilities. Generating reproducible attack data to make customer systems safer and more robust.

Responsibilities:

  • Red team conversational AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation
  • Generate human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks
  • Apply taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing
  • Produce reproducible reports, datasets, and attack cases
  • Identify vulnerabilities that automated tests miss
  • Expand evaluation coverage and reduce production surprises
  • Strengthen customer AI systems through adversarial testing

Requirements:

  • Native fluency in English and Portuguese (global, excluding Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing
  • Ability to probe AI systems adversarially and push systems to breaking points
  • Experience using frameworks or benchmarks for structured testing
  • Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Adaptability across projects and customers
  • Independent contractor status
  • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support
  • Nice-to-have specialties include adversarial ML, cybersecurity, socio-technical risk, and creative probing

Benefits:

  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible, self-directed schedule
  • Higher-sensitivity project participation is optional
  • Clear guidelines and wellness resources for sensitive projects
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Competitive pay
  • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
  • Referral payments of up to $180 per successful referral