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AI Safety Red Teamer
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About the Role
We are 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 complex, high-risk, and ambiguous ("grey-area") topics.
What You'll Do
- 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.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
- 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.
- Experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI Alignment, or Trust & Safety.
- Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
- Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.
Role Highlights
Pay & Payout
Independent contractor engagement. Apply via the link below - Mercor handles onboarding and pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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