AI Safety Red Teamer

🔥 28 minutes ago

🇺🇸 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

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📋 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 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 that can be completed on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Collaboration with leading researchers and safety teams • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral incentive of up to $340 per successful referral, subject to limits