Remote AI Safety Red Teamer — Contract

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

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer to stress-test frontier AI models from a remote location. This contract role emphasizes adversarial prompt design, vulnerability discovery, and safety benchmarking across domains.

You will work with AI researchers to improve model alignment and robustness, contributing to reports and documentation. Qualifications include 5+ years in AI safety, red teaming, or related fields.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 prompts

Prompt design

AI safety

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer to stress-test frontier AI models from a remote location. This contract role emphasizes adversarial prompt design, vulnerability discovery, and safety benchmarking across domains.

You will work with AI researchers to improve model alignment and robustness, contributing to reports and documentation. Qualifications include 5+ years in AI safety, red teaming, or related fields.