AI Safety Expert - Red Team
$48 - $62 per hourMercor
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 & Danish
Type: Contract
Compensation: $48–$62/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
- Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
- Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
- Document 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 & Danish .
- Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work , cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing .
- Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive on moving across projects and customers.
Preferred
- Experience in Adversarial ML : jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
- Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
- Expertise in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
- Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
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