Remote AI Safety Red Team Specialist

Mercor; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a remote red team to probe AI models with adversarial inputs, surface weaknesses, and create high-quality red team data for safer AI deployments.

You will review outputs touching sensitive topics and may participate in higher-sensitivity projects with clear guidelines and wellness resources. English and Swedish fluency is required, and the work is text-based across multiple clients.

Qualifications

• Prior red teaming experience with AI or cybersecurity.
• Ability to annotate failures and classify vulnerabilities using structured playbooks.
• Comfort following taxonomies/benchmarks to keep testing consistent.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents: jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases.
• Generate high-quality human data: annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, flag systemic risks.
• Document reproducibly: produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customers.

Skills

Red teaming

Adversarial ML

Cybersecurity

Vulnerability analysis

Job description

Mercor is building a remote red team to probe AI models with adversarial inputs, surface weaknesses, and create high-quality red team data for safer AI deployments.

You will review outputs touching sensitive topics and may participate in higher-sensitivity projects with clear guidelines and wellness resources. English and Swedish fluency is required, and the work is text-based across multiple clients.