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mercor

AI Safety Specialist - Remote | Upto $84/hr

mercor
PortugalPosted 17 days agoDiscoveredMatch locked
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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 Safety Red Teamer

Role 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.

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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Skills

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