Remote AI Red Team Specialist: Adversarial Safety Testing

Mercor; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a red team for AI safety, focusing on adversarial inputs that probe models for vulnerabilities. This is a text-based, high-sensitivity project with optional participation and wellness resources.

You’ll join a dedicated team testing jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases to strengthen client AI systems. We value curiosity, structured thinking, and clear communication across 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.

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 ML

Cybersecurity

Structured testing

Clear communication

Tools

Threat modeling tools

Reverse engineering

Job description

Mercor is assembling a red team for AI safety, focusing on adversarial inputs that probe models for vulnerabilities. This is a text-based, high-sensitivity project with optional participation and wellness resources.

You’ll join a dedicated team testing jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases to strengthen client AI systems. We value curiosity, structured thinking, and clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.