AI Safety Red Team Specialist (Remote)

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a red team for AI safety. This role focuses on adversarial testing of conversational AI models, including jailbreaks, prompt injections, and bias exploration.

You will generate high-quality human data, annotate failures, and document reproducible attack cases for customers. Ideal candidates have prior red-teaming experience in AI or cybersecurity, are curious, structured, and able to communicate risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Prior red teaming experience (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Curious and adversarial: you push systems to breaking points.
• Structured: you use frameworks or benchmarks, not just random hacks.
• Communicative: you explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable: thrive on moving across projects and customers.

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 team experience

Adversarial mindset

Structured thinking

Communication

Adaptability

Job description

Mercor is building a red team for AI safety. This role focuses on adversarial testing of conversational AI models, including jailbreaks, prompt injections, and bias exploration.

You will generate high-quality human data, annotate failures, and document reproducible attack cases for customers. Ideal candidates have prior red-teaming experience in AI or cybersecurity, are curious, structured, and able to communicate risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.