AI Safety Red Teamer

🕒 September 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $70 - $84 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

👻 Ghost score 8%

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• 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 • 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 one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety • Must not require H-1B or STEM OPT support; Mercor is unable to support H-1B or STEM OPT candidates

🏖️ 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 • Cutting-edge adversarial testing alongside leading AI researchers and safety teams • Opportunity to influence how AI systems respond to complex, real-world safety challenges • Competitive pay • Referral bonus of up to $340 per successful referral