AI Safety Expert - Red Team

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 Experts — English & Portuguese (global)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $29–$45/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation.
• Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
• Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
• Work independently and asynchronously . Participate in optional higher-sensitivity projects with clear guidelines and wellness resources.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native fluency in English and Portuguese (global, excluding Brazilian Portuguese).
• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work , cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing .
• Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in Adversarial ML : jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks , model extraction.
• Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Socio-technical risk expertise: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Creative probing skills in psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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