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San Francisco, CA · Remote

$20 - $22/hr

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San Francisco, CA · Remote

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AI Safety Expert - Red Team

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AI Safety Expert - Red Team

San Francisco, CA · Remote

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AI Safety Expert - Red Team

Mercor

New York, NY • Remote

$48 - $62/hr

Full-time

Re-posted 28 days ago

Job description

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 D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: AI Safety Experts — English & Swedish
Type: Contract
Compensation: $48–$62/hour
Location: Remote

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 ensure 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

  • Fluent in English and Swedish.
  • Prior red teaming experience in 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, Cybersecurity, and Socio-technical risk.
  • Skills in Creative probing such as psychology, acting, or unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

Resources & Support

  • For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
  • For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.