Senior Frontier AI Safety Red Team Expert

Mercor; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,100,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing. You will design challenging prompts, uncover model weaknesses, and evaluate AI behavior across complex, high-risk topics.

Responsibilities include stress-testing models, identifying jailbreaks and policy failures, and documenting findings to improve safety and alignment with researchers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS, cybersecurity, journalism, communications, psychology, biology, chemistry, public policy, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, 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 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.

Skills

Adversarial prompts

Prompt design

AI safety testing

Model evaluation

Written communication

Analytical reasoning

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing. You will design challenging prompts, uncover model weaknesses, and evaluate AI behavior across complex, high-risk topics.

Responsibilities include stress-testing models, identifying jailbreaks and policy failures, and documenting findings to improve safety and alignment with researchers.