AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $84/hr

Mercor; Dublin; Remote; EUR 83,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a remote contract role. You will design adversarial prompts and stress-test frontier AI models, documenting vulnerabilities for safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.

You will collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety across cyber, biosecurity, misinformation, and political content domains. 5+ years in AI safety or red teaming is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or related field.
• Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication skills.
• Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating 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, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains.
• Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety.

Skills

Analytical reasoning

Prompt design

Written communication

Adversarial prompt design

AI Safety / Red Teaming

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or related discipline

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.