AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $84/hr

Visa Hunt; Denmark; Remote; DKK 621,000 - 745,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer to stress-test frontier AI models, identify jailbreaks and policy failures, and collaborate with AI researchers on alignment and safety.

This contract role is remote and pays $70–$84/hour, requiring a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 5+ years in AI safety or related disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teeing? cuff? Trust & Safety or 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 design

AI safety analysis

Written communication

Education

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

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.