AI Safety Red Teamer

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AI Safety Red Teamer adversarially testing frontier AI systems for Mercor's AI lab partners. Identifying jailbreaks, hallucinations, policy failures, and safety vulnerabilities.

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
  • 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 one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety preferred
  • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support

Benefits:

  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Opportunity to work alongside leading AI researchers and safety teams
  • Work on cutting-edge adversarial testing and frontier AI projects
  • Opportunity to influence AI model safety and alignment
  • Referral program offering up to $340 per successful referral, with no limit on referrals (restrictions may apply)
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request