Remote AI Safety Red Teamer — Stress-Test Frontier Models

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 116,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a remote, contract role with hourly compensation of $70–$84. You will design adversarial prompts, identify jailbreaks and unsafe behaviors, and test model robustness across sensitive domains.

You will collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment and safety. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in AI safety or red teaming, a Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or a related field, and strong analytical, prompt design, and written communication

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences or related.
• 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 behaviors, 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

Prompt design

Analytical reasoning

Written communication

AI safety

Red teaming

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Jailbreak testing

Prompt engineering

Adversarial evaluation

Job description

Mercor is seeking an AI Safety Red Teamer for a remote, contract role with hourly compensation of $70–$84. You will design adversarial prompts, identify jailbreaks and unsafe behaviors, and test model robustness across sensitive domains.

You will collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment and safety. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in AI safety or red teaming, a Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or a related field, and strong analytical, prompt design, and written communication