Frontier AI Safety Red Team Expert

Mercor

Viseu

On-site

EUR 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Mercor is seeking an experienced professional to advance frontier AI safety through adversarial testing and red-teaming initiatives in Portugal. You will design challenging prompts, uncover model weaknesses, and assess AI behavior across high-risk, ambiguous topics, contributing to safety benchmarks and cross-disciplinary collaboration with AI researchers.

The role emphasizes rigorous analysis, documentation of vulnerabilities, and proactive engagement with safety teams to strengthen model

Qualifications

Must have strong analytical reasoning and prompt design abilities.
Excellent written communication skills.
Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems.

Responsibilities

Identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing.
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.