Adversarial AI Red Team Security Engineer

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: Red Team Specialist
Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work
Compensation: $56/hour
Location: Remote; Geography restricted to USA & Europe

Role Responsibilities

Evaluate AI models for vulnerabilities by conducting jailbreaks prompt injections and misuse cases.
Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures classifying vulnerabilities and flagging systemic risks.
Apply structure by following taxonomies benchmarks and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
Document findings 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.
Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

Experience with Adversarial ML techniques such as jailbreak datasets prompt injection RLHF/DPO attacks and model extraction.
Background in Cybersecurity including penetration testing exploit development and reverse engineering.
Knowledge of socio-technical risk harassment/disinfo probing and abuse analysis.

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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...