AI Adversarial Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $62/hr

mercor; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 59,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking AI Safety Experts — English & Finnish for remote engagement with leading AI labs. Contract position with flexible, asynchronous work.

You will red team conversational AI models to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. Responsibilities include generating high-quality data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and documenting reproducible findings to produce actionable reports and datasets for customers.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Finnish (must-have).
• Experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing (must-have).
• Ability to communicate risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders (must-have).
• Experience with adversarial ML, including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, and model extraction (preferred).
• Background in cybersecurity, such as penetration testing and exploit development (preferred).
• Expertise in socio-technical risk, including harassment/disinfo probing and abuse analysis (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
• Apply structured approaches using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
• Document findings reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Skills

English

Finnish

Red Teaming

Stakeholder comms

Adversarial ML

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 Experts — English & Finnish

Type: Contract

Compensation: $48–$62/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
• Apply structured approaches using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
• Document findings reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

• Must-Have Fluent in English and Finnish.
• Must-Have Prior experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work , cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing.
• Must-Have Ability to communicate risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Preferred Experience with Adversarial ML , including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, and model extraction.
• Preferred Background in Cybersecurity , such as penetration testing and exploit development.
• Preferred Expertise in socio-technical risk, including harassment/disinfo probing and abuse analysis.