AI Safety Red Teamer

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AI Safety Red Teamer stress-testing frontier models for Mercor’s AI training partnerships. Designing adversarial prompts, finding vulnerabilities, and improving model safety with AI researchers.

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
  • Complete projects on an independent-contractor basis according to project needs and performance

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
  • Preferred: experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI Alignment, or Trust & Safety
  • Preferred: familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies
  • Preferred: expertise in grey-area domains including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety
  • Must be able to work as an independent contractor
  • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits:

  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Competitive pay
  • Opportunity to work alongside leading AI researchers and safety teams
  • Opportunity to influence frontier AI safety and alignment
  • Referral bonus of up to $340 per successful referral