Frontier AI Safety Red Team Lead

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks 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, and ambiguous topics.

Responsibilities include designing adversarial prompts, identifying jailbreaks and unsafe behaviours, evaluating robustness across misinformation, cyber security, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/related fields.
• 5+ years of professional AI Safety/Red Teaming experience.
• Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design and 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 testing

Prompt design

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

AI Safety

Red Teaming

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/related fields

Job description

Mercor seeks 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, and ambiguous topics.

Responsibilities include designing adversarial prompts, identifying jailbreaks and unsafe behaviours, evaluating robustness across misinformation, cyber security, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains.