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Mercor

AI Safety Red Team Member

Mercor

. Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models .

Posted 9/24/2026contractRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $70 - $84 per hourWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AI Safety and Red Teaming, with strong analytical reasoning and prompt design skills. Capable of evaluating model robustness across sensitive domains and documenting vulnerabilities effectively.

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AI SafetyAdversarial Prompt DesignAI Red TeamingAnalytical ReasoningWritten Communication

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Hard Skills
Adversarial Prompt DesignAI Red TeamingTrust & SafetyPrompt EngineeringEvaluating Frontier AI SystemsRobustness EvaluationSafety BenchmarkingInvestigative JournalismCybersecurityLife Sciences
Soft Skills
Analytical ReasoningWritten Communication
Industry Keywords
CyberBiosecurityPolitical ContentMisinformationScientific Safety

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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
  • Complete projects on an independent contractor basis according to project needs and performance

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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
  • 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 preferred
  • Must be able to work as an independent contractor
  • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Fully remote role
  • Work on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
  • Opportunity to work alongside leading AI researchers and safety teams
  • Help shape the next generation of AI systems
  • Up to $340 for each successful referral (referral limits apply)