Remote AI Safety Red Team Engineer

Mercor; Philippines; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a remote red team to evaluate conversational AI systems. You will simulate jailbreaks, prompt injections, and bias exploits, generating high-quality human data and attack cases for actionable insights.

You bring prior red teaming experience (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing) and are structured, adaptable, and capable of explaining risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• You bring prior red teaming experience (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• You’re curious and adversarial: you instinctively push systems to breaking points.
• You’re structured: you use frameworks or benchmarks, not just random hacks.
• You’re communicative: you explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You’re adaptable: thrive on moving across projects and customers.

Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents: jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, multi-turn manipulation.
• Generate high-quality human data: annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
• Apply structure: follow taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to keep testing consistent.
• Document reproducibly: produce reports, datasets, and attack cases customers can act on.

Skills

Red team experience

AI adversarial testing

Structured thinking

Clear communication

Adversarial mindset

Job description

Mercor is building a remote red team to evaluate conversational AI systems. You will simulate jailbreaks, prompt injections, and bias exploits, generating high-quality human data and attack cases for actionable insights.

You bring prior red teaming experience (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing) and are structured, adaptable, and capable of explaining risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.