Remote AI Safety Red Teamer - Stress-Test Frontier Models

mercor; Norway; Remote; NOK 922,000 - 1,106,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a remote contract role. You will design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models, identify jailbreaks and unsafe behaviors, and evaluate robustness across sensitive domains. Collaboration with AI researchers will help improve alignment and safety.

The role requires a strong background in AI safety, red teaming, and related fields, with demonstrated ability in prompt design and written communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 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 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

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or a related discipline

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a remote contract role. You will design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models, identify jailbreaks and unsafe behaviors, and evaluate robustness across sensitive domains. Collaboration with AI researchers will help improve alignment and safety.

The role requires a strong background in AI safety, red teaming, and related fields, with demonstrated ability in prompt design and written communication.