Remote AI Safety Red Team Specialist

mercor; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 80,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks an AI Safety Red Teamer to stress-test frontier AI models, design adversarial prompts, and identify jailbreaks and unsafe behaviors. The role evaluates robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, and political content, and reports findings to strengthen safety measures.

You will document vulnerabilities, contribute to benchmarking, and work with researchers to improve alignment and safety. Strong written communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI safety, red teaming, trust & safety, cybersecurity, journalism, or life sciences.
• Strong analytical reasoning and written communication skills.

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.

Skills

Adversarial prompt design

AI safety

Prompt evaluation

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

Frontier AI systems testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or related field

Job description

Mercor seeks an AI Safety Red Teamer to stress-test frontier AI models, design adversarial prompts, and identify jailbreaks and unsafe behaviors. The role evaluates robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, and political content, and reports findings to strengthen safety measures.

You will document vulnerabilities, contribute to benchmarking, and work with researchers to improve alignment and safety. Strong written communication is essential.