Remote AI Red Team Specialist - Adversarial Testing

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a remote red team to test AI safety, focusing on adversarial inputs and sensitive content review. The work is text-based and guided by clear guidelines, with opportunities to collaborate across projects and customers.

You will simulate jailbreaks, craft edge cases, and document reproducible reports that help strengthen AI safety and trust across Mercor's offerings, while adhering to ethical guidelines and wellness resources.

Qualifications

• Prior red team experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
• Curious and adversarial mindset; ability to push systems to breaking points.
• Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks, not ad-hoc hacks.
• Strong communication to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability to move 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

AI adversarial work

Cybersecurity

Structured testing

Clear communicator

Adaptable

Job description

Mercor is building a remote red team to test AI safety, focusing on adversarial inputs and sensitive content review. The work is text-based and guided by clear guidelines, with opportunities to collaborate across projects and customers.

You will simulate jailbreaks, craft edge cases, and document reproducible reports that help strengthen AI safety and trust across Mercor's offerings, while adhering to ethical guidelines and wellness resources.