AI Red Team Specialist

Mercor

Remote

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 & Marathi

Type: Contract

Compensation: $20–$22/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 for customer action.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Fluent in English and Marathi.
  • Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
  • Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Adaptable and able to thrive across projects and customers.

Preferred

  • Experience with 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.
  • Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

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