AI Red-Team Specialist

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: Red Team Specialist
Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work
Compensation: $56/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents, focusing on jailbreaks, prompt injections, and bias exploitation.
• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
• Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain 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 .

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.
• Ability to explain risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in Adversarial ML , Cybersecurity , or socio-technical risk analysis.
• Skills in jailbreak datasets , prompt injection, or RLHF/DPO attacks .

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor , Paid weekly via Stripe Connect .

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

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