Remote AI Safety Red Team Engineer (Contract)

mercor; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 86,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a remote contract to stress-test frontier AI models by designing adversarial prompts, identifying jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures. You will document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports, collaborating with AI researchers to improve alignment and safety.

Ideal candidates hold a bachelor’s degree or higher and have 5+ years in AI safety, red teaming, or related fields, with

Qualifications

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

Frontier AI evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in related field

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a remote contract to stress-test frontier AI models by designing adversarial prompts, identifying jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures. You will document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports, collaborating with AI researchers to improve alignment and safety.

Ideal candidates hold a bachelor’s degree or higher and have 5+ years in AI safety, red teaming, or related fields, with