AI Security Analyst
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.
Position: AI Red-Teamer
This role is available as full-time or part-time on an hourly contractor basis. Compensation varies by project, customer, and content category.
Location
Remote-friendly (US time zones); Geography restricted to US, UK, Canada
Role Responsibilities
- Red-team AI models and agents via 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
Complete an AI interview based on your resume and submit the application form. Please check this link for interview process details. For support, email support@mercor.com.
Key skills/competency
- Red-teaming
- Cybersecurity
- Adversarial ML
- Vulnerability analysis
- Risk documentation
- Penetration testing
- Exploit development
- Annotation
- Framework compliance
- Socio-technical probing
How to Get Hired at Mercor
- Customize Your Resume: Highlight AI adversarial and red-teaming skills.
- Research Mercor: Understand their culture, projects, and investors.
- Prepare for Interviews: Practice explaining technical vulnerabilities clearly.
- Showcase Adaptability: Demonstrate multi-project experience.
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