AI Safety Red Teamer Expert

mercor; Denmark; Remote; DKK 643,000 - 772,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a remote contract position. You will design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models, identify jailbreaks and safety failures, and document vulnerabilities for safety benchmarking.

Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety across multiple domains. The role requires a strong background in AI safety, at least 5 years of relevant experience, and excellence in analytical reasoning and written

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in 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, 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

Adversarial prompts

Prompt design

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

AI Safety

Red Teaming

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

RLHF

SFT

AI Alignment

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 Red Teamer | Type: Contract | Compensation: $70–$84/hour | Location: Remote

Role 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.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 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 .

Preferred

• Experience with AI Red Teaming , RLHF , SFT , AI Alignment , or Trust & Safety .
• Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
• Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.