AI Safety Red Teamer Expert

mercor; Ireland; Remote; EUR 86,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a contract role to stress-test frontier AI models remotely, with compensation of $70–$84 per hour. You will design adversarial prompts, identify jailbreaks and policy failures, and help with safety benchmarking and reports.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in AI safety or related fields, strong analytical and written communication skills, and experience in prompt design for frontier AI systems. Collaboration with researchers is key.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related discipline.
• 5+ years in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity or related field.
• Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication.
• Experience designing adversarial prompts for frontier AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models.
• Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures.
• Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, and political content.
• Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.
• Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety.

Skills

Adversarial prompts

Prompt design

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

AI Safety field

Cybersecurity background

Public Policy

Job description

About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: AI Safety Red Teamer | Type: Contract | Compensation: $70–$84/hour | Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models .
• Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, 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.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 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 .

Preferred

• Experience with AI Red Teaming , RLHF , SFT , AI Alignment , or Trust & Safety .
• Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
• Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.