Remote AI Safety Red Team Specialist

Obsidian; Kuala Lumpur; Remote; MYR 368,000 - 532,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a remote red-team for AI safety, focusing on adversarial testing and data generation to strengthen AI systems. The role emphasizes bias, misuse cases, and reproducible reporting across diverse projects.

Ideal candidates bring AI adversarial experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to communicate risk clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders while thriving in a distributed, international team.

Qualifications

• You have red team experience in AI adversarial work or cybersecurity.
• You are curious and adversarial, pushing systems to breaking points.
• You are structured and use frameworks or benchmarks, not random hacks.
• You communicate risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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 teaming

AI adversarial testing

Cybersecurity

Structured thinking

Clear communication

Job description

Mercor is building a remote red-team for AI safety, focusing on adversarial testing and data generation to strengthen AI systems. The role emphasizes bias, misuse cases, and reproducible reporting across diverse projects.

Ideal candidates bring AI adversarial experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to communicate risk clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders while thriving in a distributed, international team.