About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: AI Safety Red Teamer

Type: Contract

Compensation: $70–$84/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models.
Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, 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.

Qualifications

Must-Have

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.
Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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AI Safety Specialist - Remote

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