AI Safety Red Teamer

Mercor·Remote, Oregon·Posted 25d ago·via Talent.com

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Job 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
  • Train and enhance frontier AI systems through human expertise

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
  • 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 such as 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: - Fully remote role

  • Work on your own schedule
  • Payments weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
  • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
  • Competitive pay
  • Collaborate with leading researchers
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral opportunity earning up to $340 per successful referral (referral limits apply)

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