Remote AI Safety Red Teamer (Contract)

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

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer (contract) for remote work to stress-test frontier AI models and identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, and policy failures. You will document vulnerabilities and contribute to red-teaming reports, collaborating with AI researchers to improve alignment and safety.

The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, plus 5+ years of relevant experience in AI safety, red teaming, or related fields. This is a remote engagement with flexible hours.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or related field.
• Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication skills.
• Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems.

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

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

Adversarial prompts design

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer (contract) for remote work to stress-test frontier AI models and identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, and policy failures. You will document vulnerabilities and contribute to red-teaming reports, collaborating with AI researchers to improve alignment and safety.

The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, plus 5+ years of relevant experience in AI safety, red teaming, or related fields. This is a remote engagement with flexible hours.