Remote AI Safety Expert - Adversarial Red Team & Testing

Neon; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a remote Red Team/Data-Quality role focusing on adversarial inputs to improve AI safety. Fluency in English and Marathi is required; work involves high-sensitivity text analysis and structured testing across diverse projects.

You will annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and generate reproducible reports while adhering to strict guidelines. This role requires rigorous attention to detail, clear communication, and adaptability across tasks.

Qualifications

• Must have strong judgment about language and content.
• Be rigorous and notice subtle errors, inconsistencies and gaps.
• Be structured and follow guidelines and quality standards.
• Be communicative and able to explain reasoning to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Red team AI models: jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, multi-turn manipulation.
• Generate high-quality human data: annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, 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.
• Ensure rigorous review to spot subtle errors, inconsistencies, and gaps.
• Follow guidelines and quality standards consistently.
• Explain reasoning clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Move across projects, task types, and customers with adaptability.
• Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
• Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Creative probing: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking

Skills

Adversarial ML

Red team

Prompt injections

Model extraction

Penetration testing

Reverse engineering

Cybersecurity

Communication

Documentation

Structured testing

Job description

Mercor is seeking a remote Red Team/Data-Quality role focusing on adversarial inputs to improve AI safety. Fluency in English and Marathi is required; work involves high-sensitivity text analysis and structured testing across diverse projects.

You will annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and generate reproducible reports while adhering to strict guidelines. This role requires rigorous attention to detail, clear communication, and adaptability across tasks.