AI Safety Red Teamer
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๐ฐ $70 - $84/hr
๐ Remote
Job Description:
- 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
- Complete projects on an independent-contractor basis according to project needs and performance
Requirements:
- 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
- Preferred: experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI Alignment, or Trust & Safety
- Preferred: familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies
- Preferred: expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety
- Must be able to work as an independent contractor
- H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Opportunity to work alongside leading AI researchers and safety teams
- Opportunity to influence frontier AI safety and alignment
- Referral payments of up to $340 per successful referral (subject to limits)
- Reasonable accommodations upon request