Security Engineer
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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: $29/hour
Location: Remote; Geography restricted to USA Brazil
Role Responsibilities
- Evaluate conversational AI models for vulnerabilities through 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 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 experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work cybersecurity socio-technical probing).
- Native-level fluency in English and Brazilian Portuguese.
- Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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).
Compensation & Legal
- Hourly contractor Paid weekly.
Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
Key Skills
- Splunk
- IDS
- Network security
- Computer Networking
- Identity & Access Management
- PKI
- PCI
- NIST Standards
- Security System Experience
- Information Security
- Encryption
- Siem
