AI Red Team Specialist

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 Safety Experts — English & Marathi

Type: Contract

Compensation: $20–$22/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
• 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 by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Fluent in English and Marathi.
• Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptable and able to thrive across projects and customers.

Preferred

• Experience with Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
• Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Expertise in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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