Frontier AI Safety Red Teamer

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; 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 high-risk topics.

Responsibilities include designing prompts, identifying jailbreaks and unsafe behaviours, and documenting vulnerabilities for safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports, collaborating with researchers to improve alignment and safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or a 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 prompt design

Model evaluation & analysis

Written communication

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Cybersecurity/related field

Tools

Adversarial testing frameworks

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 high-risk topics.

Responsibilities include designing prompts, identifying jailbreaks and unsafe behaviours, and documenting vulnerabilities for safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports, collaborating with researchers to improve alignment and safety.