Ai Safety Specialist - Remote | Upto $84/Hr

Mercor; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 86,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor, a San Francisco-based company connecting elite AI talent with labs, seeks an AI Safety Red Teamer for remote work. You will design adversarial prompts, test for jailbreaks, and assess model safety across sensitive domains, contributing to reports and safety benchmarks.

You bring 5+ years in AI safety or red-teaming, strong analytical and communication skills, and a track record in prompt engineering or adversarial evaluation. This contract role offers flexible remote arrangements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teamer, Trust & Safety, 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 behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures.
• Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content.
• 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

Experience in AI Safety

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

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 Red Teamer |

Type

Contract |

Compensation

$70–$84/hour |

Location

Remote Role 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.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 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.

Preferred

• Experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI Alignment, or Trust & Safety.
• Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
• Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.