AI Safety Red Team Specialist – Remote

Mercor; Helsinki; Remote; EUR 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a red team to test and harden its AI systems. This role focuses on adversarial evaluation of conversational AI, including jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases. You will operate remotely, applying structured methodologies to uncover vulnerabilities.

You’ll document findings, generate reproducible artifacts, and help clients improve safety and reliability. English and Finnish fluency are required, and prior red-teaming experience is valued.

Qualifications

• Experience in red teaming AI models or cybersecurity testing.
• Ability to annotate vulnerabilities and surface systemic risks.
• Familiarity with taxonomies, benchmarks, and testing playbooks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents: jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, multi-turn manipulation
• Generate high-quality human data: annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks
• Apply structure: follow taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to keep testing consistent
• Document reproducibly: produce reports, datasets, and attack cases customers can act on

Skills

Red teaming

AI adversarial work

Cybersecurity

Structured testing

Communication

Job description

Mercor is building a red team to test and harden its AI systems. This role focuses on adversarial evaluation of conversational AI, including jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases. You will operate remotely, applying structured methodologies to uncover vulnerabilities.

You’ll document findings, generate reproducible artifacts, and help clients improve safety and reliability. English and Finnish fluency are required, and prior red-teaming experience is valued.