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 is a remote, full-time or part-time contract position as an AI Red-Team Specialist, offering flexible hours and a compensation of $26/hour.
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
Hourly contractor, Paid weekly.
Application Process (Takes 20-30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
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
- Conversational AI Testing
- Risk Analysis
- Socio-technical Probing
- Data Annotation
- Taxonomy Following
How to Get Hired at Mercor
- Research Mercor's mission: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight AI red teaming, cybersecurity, and adversarial ML experience relevant to Mercor.
- Show language proficiency: Emphasize native English and Spanish fluency as a core requirement.
- Prepare for AI interview: Practice articulating complex risks clearly and structured problem-solving approaches for Mercor.
- Demonstrate adaptable mindset: Convey your ability to successfully transition across diverse projects and customer needs at Mercor.
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