Remote AI Safety Red Teamer - Adversarial Prompting

Mercor; Roma; Remote; EUR 84,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for contract work to stress-test frontier AI models and identify unsafe behaviors. The role emphasizes documenting vulnerabilities and contributing to red-teaming efforts for safety benchmarking.

You will design adversarial prompts, evaluate model robustness, and collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment across diverse, sensitive domains. Remote contract with competitive hourly compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety or a 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.
• Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.
• Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety.

Skills

AI Safety

Red Teaming

Cybersecurity

Prompt design

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Cybersecurity/related fields

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for contract work to stress-test frontier AI models and identify unsafe behaviors. The role emphasizes documenting vulnerabilities and contributing to red-teaming efforts for safety benchmarking.

You will design adversarial prompts, evaluate model robustness, and collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment across diverse, sensitive domains. Remote contract with competitive hourly compensation.