Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Analyst

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 Red Team Specialist

Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work

Compensation: $29/hour

Location: Remote;
Geography restricted to USA, Brazil

• 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 using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure 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.

• Native-level fluency in English and Brazilian Portuguese.
• Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Strong communication skills to explain risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt and thrive across diverse projects and customers.

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

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• Paid weekly

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