AI Safety Red Teamer Expert (Remote Contract)

About the role

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This is a remote contract position for an AI Safety Red Teamer, paid $70-$84 per hour.

Key responsibilities

• Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models.
• Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations and policy failures.
• Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content and other sensitive domains.
• Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.
• Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness and safety.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences or a related field.
• Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design and written communication skills.
• Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems.
• Preferred: experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI Alignment or Trust & Safety, familiarity with jailbreak testing and prompt engineering, and expertise in one or more grey-area domains such as cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation or scientific safety.

Applications are reviewed daily through an online process: upload a resume, complete an AI interview based on the resume and submit a form (about 20-30 minutes).