AI Red-Teamer
Mercor
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Job Description
AI Red-Teamer 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.
Position: AI Red-Teamer
Type: Full-time or Part-time
Compensation: $50–$111/hour
Location: Remote-friendly (US time zones); Geography restricted to US, UK, Canada
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
- Hourly contractor
- 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
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
- Cybersecurity
- Adversarial ML
- Prompt Injection
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Risk Analysis
- Exploit Development
- Socio-Technical Probing
- Data Annotation
- Technical Communication
How to Get Hired at Mercor
- Research Mercor's mission: Understand their focus on connecting talent with leading AI research labs and their investor backing.
- Tailor your resume for AI Red-Teamer: Highlight prior red-teaming, adversarial AI, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing experience with keywords.
- Prepare for the AI interview: Practice articulating your experience with adversarial machine learning and risk identification specific to AI systems.
- Showcase adversarial instinct: Emphasize your curiosity and ability to creatively identify system breaking points in AI contexts.
- Demonstrate communication skills: Be ready to explain complex technical risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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