AI Safety Expert - Red Team - AI Trainer

mercor; Norway; Remote; NOK 632,000 - 817,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking AI Safety Experts — English & Norwegian for a remote contract role. You will test AI models to uncover jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and biases across multilingual contexts.

Ideal candidates have prior red-teaming experience in AI adversarial work or cybersecurity, and can apply structured testing using benchmarks. Excellent communication with diverse stakeholders and adaptability to work across multiple projects are essential.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Norwegian.
• Prior red-teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
• Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability to move across projects and customers.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents focusing on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data; annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
• Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly; produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Skills

English fluency

Norwegian fluency

Red teaming experience

Structured testing

Strong communication

Adaptability

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 Experts — English & Norwegian

Type: Contract

Compensation: $48–$62/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
• Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Fluent in English & Norwegian .
• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work , cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing.
• Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks.
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability to move across projects and customers.

Preferred

• Experience in Adversarial ML , Cybersecurity , or socio-technical risk.
• Skills in creative probing such as psychology, acting, or writing.