AI Safety Expert - Red Team

Mercor
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. As an AI Safety Expert - Red Team, you will be responsible for red teaming conversational AI models and agents, generating high-quality human data, and applying structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.

What You Will Do

Perform jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks. Document reproducibly and produce reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires strong communication skills for explaining risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience with Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, and socio-technical risk analysis is preferred.

Requirements

  • Fluent in English and Malayalam
  • Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing
  • Strong communication skills for explaining risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders
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