AI Safety Red Teamer
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Job Description
AI Safety Red Teamer identifying vulnerabilities in Mercor’s frontier AI projects. Designing adversarial prompts and evaluating model safety across high-risk domains.
Responsibilities:
- Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models
- Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviours, hallucinations, and policy failures
- Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains
- Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports
- Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety
- Work on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or a related field
- Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication skills
- Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems
- Must be an independent contractor
- H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive pay
- Collaboration with leading researchers and safety teams
- Opportunity to influence next-generation AI systems
- Up to $340 for each successful referral, with no limit on referrals (restrictions may apply)
- Reasonable accommodations available upon request







