AI Red-Team Specialist

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Red Team Specialist
Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work
Compensation: $56/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

Red team conversational AI models and agents focusing on jailbreaks prompt injections and bias exploitation.
Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures classifying vulnerabilities and flagging systemic risks.
Apply structure using taxonomies benchmarks and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
Document reproducibly by producing reports datasets and attack cases for customer action.
Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

Fluent Language Skills Required: Native-level fluency in English & German.
Prior experience in red teaming AI adversarial work cybersecurity or socio-technical probing.
Ability to explain risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

Experience in Adversarial ML Cybersecurity or socio-technical risk analysis.
Skills in jailbreak datasets prompt injection or RLHF/DPO attacks.

Compensation & Legal

Hourly contractor Paid weekly via Stripe Connect.

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About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey. Position: Red Team Specialist Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract...