AI Red Team Specialist
Mercor
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Job Description
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.
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
The application process takes approximately 20–30 minutes to complete:
- Upload resume
- Complete 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/welcomeFor 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 AI
- Cybersecurity
- Prompt Injection
- Jailbreaking
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Risk Analysis
- Penetration Testing
- Exploit Development
- Machine Learning Security
How to Get Hired at Mercor
- Research Mercor's mission: Study their focus on connecting elite talent with leading AI research labs and their investor backing.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight prior experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, penetration testing, and ML security.
- Prepare for AI interviews: Practice articulating complex technical concepts and demonstrating problem-solving scenarios for AI vulnerabilities.
- Showcase adversarial thinking: Emphasize your curiosity and instinct for pushing systems to breaking points through creative probing.
- Demonstrate communication skills: Be ready to explain technical risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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