Frontier AI Safety Red Teamer

Mercor; København; Remote; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing, prompt design, and rigorous evaluation of model behavior in high-risk contexts.

You will collaborate with AI researchers to stress-test models, document weaknesses, and contribute to safety benchmarking across misinformation, biosecurity, cyber, and political content.

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 behaviours, 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

Prompt engineering

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

AI safety / red teaming

Collaboration with researchers

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS / cybersecurity / related field

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing, prompt design, and rigorous evaluation of model behavior in high-risk contexts.

You will collaborate with AI researchers to stress-test models, document weaknesses, and contribute to safety benchmarking across misinformation, biosecurity, cyber, and political content.