AI Safety Expert - Red Team

Job Description

Job Description

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 & Finnish
Type: Contract
Compensation: $48–$62/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
• Apply structured approaches using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
• Document findings reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Fluent in English and Finnish .
• Prior experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work , cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing.
• Ability to communicate risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience with Adversarial ML , including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, and model extraction.
• Background in Cybersecurity , such as penetration testing and exploit development.
• Expertise in socio-technical risk, including harassment/disinfo probing and abuse analysis.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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