AI Red Team Lead

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 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: AI Red Team Specialist
Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work
Compensation: $50/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

Must-Have

Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work cybersecurity or socio-technical probing.
Native-level fluency in English and Chinese (Mandarin).
Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to thrive on moving across projects and customers.

Preferred

Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets prompt injection RLHF/DPO attacks model extraction.
Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing exploit development reverse engineering.
Expertise in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing abuse analysis conversational AI testing.
Creative probing skills: psychology acting writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

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: AI Red Team Specialist Type: Full-time or Part-time Contr...