AI Safety Expert - Red Team

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 & Portuguese (global)
Type:
Contract
Compensation: $29–$45/hour
Location:
Remote

• Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing 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 improve AI model performance and ensure safety.

• Native fluency in English and Portuguese (global, excluding Brazilian Portuguese).
• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work
  , cybersecurity
  , or socio-technical probing
  .
• Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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