Frontier AI Safety Red Teamer

Mercor; Oslo; Remote; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing and prompt design. You will uncover jailbreaks, unsafe behaviours, and policy failures while assessing model robustness across sensitive domains.

You’ll document vulnerabilities, contribute to safety benchmarking, and collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment and safety in high-risk environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related discipline (CS, cybersecurity, journalism, communications, psychology, biology, chemistry, public policy).
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, 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 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.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Prompt design

Written skills

Adversarial testing

AI safety knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Mercor seeks experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing and prompt design. You will uncover jailbreaks, unsafe behaviours, and policy failures while assessing model robustness across sensitive domains.

You’ll document vulnerabilities, contribute to safety benchmarking, and collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment and safety in high-risk environments.