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 Team Specialist
Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work
Compensation: $26/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20+ hours/week
Role Responsibilities
Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
Document reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
Work independently and asynchronously to probe AI models with adversarial inputs and surface vulnerabilities.
Qualifications
Must-Have
Fluent Language Skills Required: Native-level fluency in English & Spanish .
Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).




Ability to communicate risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
Experience in Adversarial ML : jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
Socio-technical risk expertise: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.
Compensation & Legal
Hourly contractor , Paid weekly via Stripe Connect .
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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