[Hiring] AI Safety Red Teamer Expert @Mercor

Role Description

The AI Safety Red Teamer will be responsible for:

• Designing adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models.
• Identifying jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures.
• Evaluating model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains.
• Documenting vulnerabilities and contributing to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.
• Collaborating with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety.

Qualifications

• Must-Have:
• 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, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
• Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.

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