Frontier AI Safety Red Team Specialist

Mercor; Oslo; Remote; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor in Oslo 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 and ambiguous topics.

Join a team of researchers to stress-test models, document findings, and contribute to safety benchmarking. The role emphasizes collaboration, rigorous analysis, and deep domain knowledge in cyber, biosecurity, and political content.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, 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 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.

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor in Oslo 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 and ambiguous topics.

Join a team of researchers to stress-test models, document findings, and contribute to safety benchmarking. The role emphasizes collaboration, rigorous analysis, and deep domain knowledge in cyber, biosecurity, and political content.