AI Safety Red Teamer Expert

mercor; Österreich; Remote; EUR 86,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer on a contract basis to stress-test frontier AI models through adversarial prompts and rigorous evaluation.

You will identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, and policy failures, document findings, and collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment, robustness and safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5+ years in AI Safety, red-teaming, trust & safety, cybersecurity, journalism, or life sciences.
• Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models.
• Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures.
• Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content, or 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.

Skills

Prompt design

Adversarial testing

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

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 Red Teamer | Type: Contract | Compensation: $70–$84/hour | Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models .
• Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, 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.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 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 .

Preferred

• Experience with AI Red Teaming , RLHF , SFT , AI Alignment , or Trust & Safety .
• Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
• Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.