AI Red Team Specialist

About the AI Red Team Specialist Role at Mercor

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.

This is an exciting opportunity for an AI Red Team Specialist to contribute to the safety and robustness of cutting-edge AI models.

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
• 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

• Native-level fluency in English and Spanish.
• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
• Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks.
• Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability to thrive on moving across projects and customers.

Preferred

• Experience in 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.

Compensation & Legal

This position is offered as an hourly contractor, with payments processed weekly.

Application Process

The application process typically takes 20-30 minutes to complete.

• Upload your resume.
• Complete an AI interview based on your resume.
• Submit the final form.

Resources & Support

For detailed information about the interview process and platform specifics, please visit: talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome/welcome. For any assistance or support, feel free to reach out to: support@mercor.com.

Our team actively reviews applications on a daily basis. To ensure your application is fully considered for this opportunity, please complete all required AI interview and application steps.

Key skills/competency

• AI Red Teaming
• Adversarial Machine Learning
• Prompt Injection
• Jailbreaking
• Vulnerability Analysis
• Risk Assessment
• Data Annotation
• Cybersecurity Principles
• Conversational AI Testing
• Technical Documentation