AI Red-Team Specialist
Mercor
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Job Description
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.
This full-time or part-time AI Red-Team Specialist role offers competitive compensation and is remote-friendly for candidates in US, UK, and Canada time zones.
Role Responsibilities
- Red-team AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and exploits.
- 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 to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
- Flex across projects to support different customers, from LLM jailbreaks to socio-technical abuse testing.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Prior red-teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
- Curiosity and adversarial instinct to push systems to breaking points.
- Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks.
- Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptability to thrive across various projects and customers.
Preferred
- Experience with Adversarial ML, including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, and model extraction.
- Cybersecurity skills in penetration testing, exploit development, and reverse engineering.
- Understanding of socio-technical risk, including harassment/disinfo probing and abuse analysis.
- Creative probing skills in psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.
Compensation & Legal
This is an hourly contractor position. Compensation varies by project, customer, and content category.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome/welcome
For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
Key skills/competency
- AI Red-Teaming
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- Cybersecurity
- Prompt Injection
- Jailbreaking
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Risk Analysis
- Penetration Testing
- Exploit Development
- Socio-technical Probing
How to Get Hired at Mercor
- Research Mercor's mission: Study their focus on connecting talent with AI labs and their investor backing to understand their vision.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight prior AI red-teaming, cybersecurity, or adversarial ML experience, emphasizing project impact and results.
- Showcase adversarial instinct: Prepare examples demonstrating your curiosity and ability to push systems to their breaking points.
- Master the AI interview: Practice articulating your technical skills and problem-solving approach relevant to AI vulnerabilities.
- Emphasize communication skills: Be ready to discuss how you explain complex risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.
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