Remote AI Adversarial Red Team Specialist

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 52,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a dedicated red team to probe AI models with adversarial inputs, surface vulnerabilities, and generate data to improve safety. This remote role focuses on text-based evaluation of outputs touching bias, misinformation, or harmful behavior.

The role involves annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and reporting actionable findings to strengthen customer AI systems. Candidates should bring prior red teaming experience and be comfortable working across projects and

Qualifications

• You bring prior red teaming experience (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing)
• Ability to follow structured taxonomies, benchmarks and playbooks
• Clear risk communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders

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

Adversarial testing

Cybersecurity

Frameworks

Communication

Job description

Mercor is building a dedicated red team to probe AI models with adversarial inputs, surface vulnerabilities, and generate data to improve safety. This remote role focuses on text-based evaluation of outputs touching bias, misinformation, or harmful behavior.

The role involves annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and reporting actionable findings to strengthen customer AI systems. Candidates should bring prior red teaming experience and be comfortable working across projects and