About the job
Mercorconnects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs.
Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors includeBenchmark ,General Catalyst ,Peter Thiel ,Adam D'Angelo ,Larry Summers , andJack 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 teamconversational AI modelsand 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.
Workindependently and asynchronouslyto probe AI models with adversarial inputs and surface vulnerabilities.




Qualifications
Must-Have
Fluent Language Skills Required:Native-level fluency inEnglish&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 inAdversarial ML : jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
Cybersecurityskills: 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
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