Remote AI Safety Red Team Engineer

Mercor; Stockholms kommun; Remote; SEK 856,000 - 1,427,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks a remote AI red team expert to probe conversational models, uncover vulnerabilities, and produce actionable data for customers. You will focus on jailbreaking, prompt injections, and bias exploitation, while documenting findings for robust safety testing.

Ideal candidates have background in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, and experience applying structured testing methods. This role offers remote collaboration across projects and clients, with a strong emphasis on safety and

Qualifications

• Experience in red teaming, AI adversarial testing, or cybersecurity.
• Ability to apply structured testing frameworks and benchmarks.
• Strong communication to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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 teaming

Adversarial AI

Cybersecurity

Frameworks & benchmarks

Tools

Penetration testing

Reverse engineering

RLHF/DPO attacks

Job description

Mercor seeks a remote AI red team expert to probe conversational models, uncover vulnerabilities, and produce actionable data for customers. You will focus on jailbreaking, prompt injections, and bias exploitation, while documenting findings for robust safety testing.

Ideal candidates have background in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, and experience applying structured testing methods. This role offers remote collaboration across projects and clients, with a strong emphasis on safety and