AI Safety Red Teamer

Mercor  ยท  via Cryptocurrency Jobs
๐Ÿ’ฐ $70 - $84/hr ๐ŸŒŽ 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
  • Work on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems

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 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 that can be completed on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
  • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
  • Competitive pay
  • Collaboration with leading researchers and safety teams
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral incentive of up to $340 per successful referral, subject to limits