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AI Safety Expert - Red Team

$29 - $45 per hour

Mercor

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 & Portuguese (global)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $29–$45/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
  • 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 by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
  • Work independently and asynchronously to improve AI model performance and ensure safety.

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 clearly 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: 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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Vacancy posted 10 days ago
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