Frontier AI Safety Red Teamer

Mercor; Dublin; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor in Ireland is seeking experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing. You will design challenging prompts, uncover model weaknesses, and evaluate AI behavior across high-risk, ambiguous topics.

Collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment, robustness, and safety, document findings, and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 5+ years in AI Safety, red teaming, trust & safety, cybersecurity, or related field.
• Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication.
• Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Analytical reasoning

Prompt design

Written communication

Adversarial prompting

Education

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

Job description

Mercor in Ireland is seeking experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing. You will design challenging prompts, uncover model weaknesses, and evaluate AI behavior across high-risk, ambiguous topics.

Collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment, robustness, and safety, document findings, and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.